Ocupation: Author
Life: November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910
Birthday: November 30
Death: April 21
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.
source: Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions
topic: Keeping Promises, World, Body, Kept Promises, Promises That Are Broken