The Puritans, who nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedom, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoying his.

Charles Farrar Browne

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Puritanism

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Charles Farrar Browne

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Irony

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English

Time

1866 1860s 19th century

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Humorist Writer

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United States

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Browne, Charles Farrar. "Introduction to the Club." London Punch Letters. c. 1866, no. 5.

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