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In Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens’s classic novel of a poor young boy making his way on the mean streets of London, the boys are given a simple bowl of porridge every day in the poorhouse. Their terrible hunger is symbolized by little Oliver approaching the master and saying timidly, “Please sir, I want some more.”
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