Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. 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. β¨ Mark Twain (1992). Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, p.14, Wordsworth Editions
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