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Robert Smith Surtees (17 May 1805 – 16 March 1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. He was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old County Durham family.

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The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

Charm, Cheapness, Country

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.

Dance, Everyone, Look, Real, Think, Thinking

The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.

Horse, Hound, Hounds, Loves

Better be killed than frightened to death.

Death, Frightened, Killed

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

Gentleman, Know, Men, Rule, Talking

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

Close, Horse, Riding, Secret

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.

Fellows, Flag, Flags, Hospitality, Mean, Men

It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

Bad, Dealer, Let, Praise, Rule, Speak

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Bullied, Hypocrisy, Integrity, People, Virtue

Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.

Dirty, Hunting, Look, Looks, Wet, Women

Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.

Lends, Names, Things, Three, Wife

No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.

Hats, Know How, Knows, Looks, Shocking, Ungentlemanly

No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.

Lord, Men, Necks, Pocket, Pockets, Scamperdale

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

Able, Funny, Lamentable, Three, Unable

Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.

Enjoyment, Enjoyments, Life, Pleasant, Would Be

It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.

Fox, Foxes, Loves, Ound

There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse

Closer, Horse, Man, Men, Secret

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