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What do these Pudd'nhead Wilson cliches mean?

Modern translation please! =D

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principla one was that they escaped teething.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have to live.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    1 The sentence is making a joke about Adam and Eve not having been babies. Teething is the painful process when a baby's teeth are first formed. Since Adam and Eve were created as adults, they never went through this process.

    2 People should appreciate that they have life instead of complaining that they will one day die.

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