The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become. — Mark Twain · Skopia

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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

1895

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 23. Originally from Notebook, c. 1895.

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