Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness …

Mark Twain
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Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.3, Courier Corporation
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Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.3, Courier Corporation

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