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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that 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.

Mark Twain
Keeping Promises, World, Body
Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that 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.