“"S. privately forced upon me his one breakfast biscuit, and …”

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“"S. privately forced upon me his one breakfast biscuit, and would have given me another tonight had I allowed him. I do not suppose that anyone else in the world can thoroughly realise how much generosity and sympathy was shown by this; I DO, and BY GOD I shall never forget. Thousands of pounds would not have bought that one biscuit."”

— Ernest Shackleton

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Title: Wikiquote: Ernest Shackleton
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Shackleton, Ernest. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Ernest Shackleton. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton

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