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...joyless prude.” It is one of Harvard’s milder ironies that vilifying Puritans has become something of a pastime at the College that was once a cradle of the Puritan orthodoxy. In October, on this very page, for instance, Joe P. Flood quoted Ambrose Bierce??s Devil’s Dictionary definitions of Puritanism: “The haunting feeling that someone, somewhere, might be happy” and Puritan: “A pious gentleman, who believed in letting all people do as he liked,” as the epigraph...
...Ambrose Bierce??s Devil’s Dictionary
...Ambrose Bierce??s Devil’s Dictionary
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