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Ping Tung

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1. There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2025, 08:58 PM

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There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness. H.L. Mencken

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