You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.
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But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
I was raised not so much in a puritan environment, but for the most part, a pretty healthy one.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.
The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
American society is still puritanical.
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.