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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.

— Anonymous

“A Puritan is not against bullfighting because of the pain it gives the bull, but because of the pleasure it gives the spectators.”

— H.L. Mencken

“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life…

— Henry James

“It was the puritan in him that couldn’t take it.”

— Ian Fleming

“The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.”

— Tim Kreider

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

— Mason Cooley

“He admired bears because everyone was afraid to disturb them while they slept and fish were so in love with bears that they jumper…

— Robb Todd

“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

“No son of mine should ever take the side of the Puritans: that is always an error.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans.”

— Finley Peter Dunne

“My passionate puritan!”

— Violet Winspear

“it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on making them think in order to bring…

— George Bernard Shaw