A Quote by John Milton

It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

John Milton

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John Milton
English - Poet
December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674

[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Pope John Paul II

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