 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 lapas
...example, in the Great Hoggarty Diamond, the death of the little child. The Book of Snobs ends thus : ' Fun is good, Truth is still better, and Love best of all' and guardian. Your eldest son, Fitz-Heehaw, is sure of a place in Parliament; your younger sous, the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1884 - 486 lapas
...honestly, hit no foul blow, and tell the truth when at his very broadest grin — never forgetting thatfif Fun is good, Truth is still better, and Love best of all. ^ G o SKETCHES AND TRAVELS IN LONDON SKETCHES TEAVELS IN LONDON. ME. BROWN'S LETTEES TO HIS NEPHEW.... | |
 | Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Taal- en Letterkunde - 1890 - 918 lapas
...« Schertsen is goed, waarheid spreken is nog beter en vriendschap betuigen is het best van al. » (Fun is good, truth is still better and love best of all.} , Reeds bij het eerste overzicht bleek het den Keurraad, dat een merkelijk onderscheid bestond tusschen... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 196 lapas
...Papers " are masterpieces of their kind. " The Book of Snobs " closes with a significant sentence: "Fun is good, Truth is still better, and Love best of all." It sums up, with singular appropriateness, Thackeray's career as a man of letters. He began with Fun:... | |
 | 1905 - 1008 lapas
...in vain. LOVE was of the very essence of Thackeray's fine humor, and of Thackeray's pathos, alike. "Fun is good, Truth is still better, and Love best of all ;" so he wrote on the last page of The Book of Snobs. Charles Lamb died in the Christmas Holidays of... | |
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FUN IS GOOD, TRUTH IS STILL BETTER, AND LOVE BEST OF ALL. 