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Famous quotes containing the words adam de and/or adam:

“When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?”
—John Ball (hanged 1381)

“Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.”
—Martin Luther (1483–1546)