“What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray , book The Newcomes

The Newcomes, Ch. 16.

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novelist 1811–1863

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