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“Please, sir, I want some more.”

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Oliver asks the workhouse master for more gruel in the first dinner scene of the novel. The plain wording became one of the most quoted lines in English fiction, and it is still used to describe an innocent request for more.

Source: Oliver Twist, Chapter 2

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