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Adam was but human–this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
– Mark Twain, “Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar”
“Curiosity is little more than another name for hope.”
– AUGUSTUS WILLIAM HARE AND JULIUS CHARLES HARE
“So often in life a new chapter awaits. You ride off into the sunset and discover it’s the sunrise.”
– ROBERT BRAULT
“I have seen this sky every day of my life and I am still in awed by it. That is what the wild is — this intense medicinal beauty. To look at it makes you feel whole.”
– CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS
“Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.”
– E. B. WHITE, CHARLOTTE’S WEB
