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		<title>Twain, Mark -- Story (1899-12), &#8220;The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,&#8221; ch. 4, Harper&#8217;s Monthly, Vol. 100, No. 595</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sin takes on new and real terrors when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out. This gives it a fresh and most substantial and important aspect. (Source (Alternate)). First collected in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays (1900).]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A sin takes on new and real terrors when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out. This gives it a fresh and most substantial and important aspect.</p>
<br><b>Mark Twain</b> (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]<br>Story (1899-12), &#8220;The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,&#8221; ch. 4, <i>Harper&#8217;s Monthly</i>, Vol. 100, No. 595 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=cub.u183015717125&seq=65&q1=%22real+terrors%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Man_that_Corrupted_Hadleyburg/Chapter_IV#:~:text=a%20sin%20takes%20on%20new%20and%20real%20terrors%20when%20there%20seems%20a%20chance%20that%20it%20is%20going%20to%20be%20found%20out.%20This%20gives%20it%20a%20fresh%20and%20most%20substantial%20and%20important%20aspect.">Source (Alternate)</a>). First <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Man_who_Corrupted_Hadleyburg_and_Oth/v65a9DVk3vkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22real%20terrors%22">collected</a> in <i>The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays</i> (1900). 


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