Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor. (Mark Twain)

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Mark Twain

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