…the Puritans compressed whatever mirth public joy deemed allowable — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter

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…the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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