Puritan Women

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“The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)