I used also to carry bread with me, enough of which was always in the house, and to which I was always welcome; I was much better off in this regard than many of the poor white children in our neighborhood. This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge.
—Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
Frederick Douglass
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