Robert Smith Surtees quotes:
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Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.
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The country has its charms-cheapness for one.
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There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
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More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
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The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.
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The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.
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The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
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Better be killed than frightened to death.
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It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.
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It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.
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Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.
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No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.
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No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.
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Some think that people come to a ball to do nothing but dance; whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball is to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after someone else's wife...
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There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.
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There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse
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Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.