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

23Nov2008 In : Quotes
Author : Frédérick Jézégou

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

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

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"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety." – Henry Louis Mencken

"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety." - Henry Louis Mencken

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