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“To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Ch. 22
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 60da0627b74084832890e19187ca00ac973eea853d9cb9fe3100f368995a94a7
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