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Letter "P" » puritan
«He had a Puritan conscience and an Episcopalian sense of sin. The first pricked at him persistently, the second was excused through public piety.»
Author: Andrew Sinclair
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Episcopalian, excused, persistently, piety, pricked, puritan, Puritans
«For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application / why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.»
«The Puritan through Life's sweet garden goes To pluck the thorn and cast away the rose»
«Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
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Art
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all the same, exuberantly, irrational, pointless, puritan, Puritans, wonderfully
«A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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indignation, pours, puritan, Puritans, righteous
«The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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baiting, puritan, Puritans, spectators, The Bear
«To the Puritan all things are impure.»
«I am not only wrong, it appears, I am also immoral - the familiar step in Puritan logic»
«Our honest Puritan festival is spreading, not as formerly, as a kind of opposition Christmas, but as a welcome prelude and adjunct, a brief interval of good cheer and social rejoicing, heralding the longer season of feasting and rest from labor in th»
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