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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Puritans
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Puritans
H. L. Mencken

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

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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
Puritans
Wendell Phillips

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun