The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. - Robert Smith Surtees
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
- Robert Smith Surtees
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. - Robert Smith Surtees
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting. - Robert Smith Surtees
Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.
It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more. - Robert Smith Surtees
It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.
The horse loves the hound, and I loves both. - Robert Smith Surtees
The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.
There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse - Robert Smith Surtees
There is no secret closer than what passes between a man and his horse
There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable. - Robert Smith Surtees
There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.
No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket. - Robert Smith Surtees
No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.
Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments. - Robert Smith Surtees
Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.
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