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The Newcomes

The Newcomes
William Makepeace Thackeray

The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1854 and 1855.

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“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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