Puritan Design

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    The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
    Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

    If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life ... for fear that I should get some of his good done to me,—some of its virus mingled with my blood.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)