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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 obtain.”
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- Source:
- Ch. 2, p. 32
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 21f1ab3d80f8a24d73568c4bad3be53dce5c25ad75689a196c83ea2046021619
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