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| He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it--namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |  |
| Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |  |
| Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |  |