Mark Twain Quotes About Forbidden Fruit
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For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.
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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
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Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.
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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.
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