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"A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on puritans    Share

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"The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose."

Hare, Kenneth on puritans    Share

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"The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."

Macaulay, Thomas B. on puritans    Share

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"The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -- that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense -- has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman."

Mencken, H. L. on puritans    Share

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"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

Mencken, H. L. on puritans
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"What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action."

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Quotation Speech Marks "The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -- that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense -- has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman."

Mencken, H. L.
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