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Quotation from A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“"She is hungrier than I am," she said to herself. "She's starving."”

Frances Hodgson Burnett (spoken by Sara Crewe)

A Little Princess, Chapter 13, One of the Populace (Project Gutenberg #146)

Portrait of Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sara, herself faint with hunger, gives her hot buns one by one to the ragged girl on the baker's step.

Citation: ""She is hungrier than I am," she said to herself. "She's starving."" — Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess, Chapter 13, One of the Populace (Project Gutenberg #146). (id a-little-princess-q4)

Virtues: Charity

Portrait: Frances Burnett, Herbert Rose Barraud (1845-1896), Public domain.

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