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.


Ch. 2. - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)

Mark Twain Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...