Thursday, April 29, 2010

The Puritan

A Puritan is a diseased piece of Apocrypha; bind him to the Bible, and he corrupts the whole text; ignorance and fat feed are his founders; his nurses railing, rabies, and round breeches; his life is but a borrowed blast of wind; for between two religions, as between two doors, he is ever whistling; for willingly his faith allows no father; only thus his pedigree is found.

- Sir Thomas Overbury

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