| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 43234 |
| QUOTATION: | Happy a while in Paradise they lay; But quickly woman longed to go astray: Some foolish new adventure needs must prove, And the first devil she saw, she changd her love: To his temptations, lewdly she inclined Her soul, and, for an apple, damnd mankind. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Thomas Otway (16521685), British dramatist. Castalio, in The Orphan, act 3, sc. 1. |
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