Palavras lidas # 28

He had had a nice, good, idle time all the while – plenty of company – and the fence had three coats of whitewash on it! If he hadn’t run out of whitewash, he would have bankrupted every boy in the village.

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. 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 attain. (…) Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.*

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
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* which reminds me of this