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Quotation #26717 from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

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 obtain.
Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)  

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