#serpent

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it. ↗

— Arthur E. Waite

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There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it. ↗

— Chanakya

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The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! ↗

— William Shakespeare

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In Boston serpents whistle at the cold. ↗

— Robert Lowell

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Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

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