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.
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- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete; Wording matched to cited full-text edition; whitespace, punctuation, capitalization and footnote markers normalized. Literary speakers reviewed.
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
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