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Quotation from A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
“If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”
A Little Princess, Chapter 11, Ram Dass (Project Gutenberg #146)
After Miss Minchin's scolding, Sara straightens herself and thinks of Marie Antoinette in prison.
Citation: "If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it." — Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess, Chapter 11, Ram Dass (Project Gutenberg #146). (id a-little-princess-q3)
Virtues: Magnanimity, Fortitude
Portrait: Frances Burnett, Herbert Rose Barraud (1845-1896), Public domain.
