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

H.L. Mencken

Tag: fear happiness definitions attitude orthodoxy puritanism strictness

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But you shouldn't have let her. That's the only way with these fanciful women that chaw high--innocent or guilty. She'd have come round in time. We all do! Custom does it! It's all the same in the end! However, I think she's fond of her man still--whatever he med be of her. You were too quick about her. I shouldn't have let her go! I should have kept her chained on-- her spirit for kicking would have been broke soon enough! There's nothing like bondage and a stone-deaf taskmaster for taming us women. Besides, you've got the laws on your side. Moses knew.

Thomas Hardy

Tag: husband girl strictness spoiled fanciful

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Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

Edward Abbey

Tag: mind heart dogma independent-thought orthodoxy strictness critical-thinking

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