This man "did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden"
The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have... [DOC] [TLE] quotations- from Twain's Puddn'head Wilson's calendar - Ed Miller's ... [PAR] Dec 22, 2012 ... "Adam was but human - this explains all-he did not want the apple for the apple's 
sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.