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“Too much of the old Puritan spirit exists in these parts to the present hour; but its influence has not tended, that I know,…

— Charles Dickens

Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

— Gunter Grass

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment -…

— James Young

You can't understand America without understanding the Puritans. In many ways, we're still living out their legacy in ways that are good and bad.

— Pete Buttigieg

The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

— Leland Ryken

Puritan age is a golden age of the prose writing.

— RMKATTA

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

— Nora Roberts

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

— D. H. Lawrence

Paperbacks of those we deem classics should be cheap and sold at supermarkets.

— Joseph Brodsky

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

— Joe Mantegna

People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people.

— Rachel Kushner

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

— Mignon McLaughlin