[From <i>Old Mortality</i>] ...religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on. - Katherine Anne Porter

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...religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.

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About Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter (15 May 1890 – 18 September 1980) was a celebrated American journalist, essayist, short story writer and novelist.

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Alternative Names: Callie Russell Porter

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These beliefs were mainly Protestant but not yet petty middle-class puritanism: there remained still an element fairly high stepping and wide gestured in its personal conduct. The petty middle class of fundamentalists who saw no difference between wine-drinking, dancing, card-playing, and adultery, had not yet got altogether the upper hand in that part of the country - in fact, never did except in certain limited areas; but it was making a brave try.

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