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I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

Mark Twain
Children, Giving Up, Way
Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.247, Mark Twain
I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.