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.
…[I]n 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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