In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“The heat was beginning to scorch my cheeks; beads of sweat were gathering in my eyebrows. It was just the same sort of heat as at my mother’s funeral, and I had the same disagreeable sensations—especially in my forehead, where all the veins seemed to be bursting through the skin.” Stranger
We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed. Enchiridion
Do you know that ages will pass and mankind will proclaim in its wisdom and science that there is no crime and, therefore no sin, but that there are only hungry people. "Feed them first and then demand virtue of them!" — that is what they will inscribe on their banner which they will raise against you and which will destroy your temple. The Karamazov Brothers
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