Robert Smith Surtees

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

— Robert Smith Surtees

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Better be killed than frightened to death. ↗

— Robert Smith Surtees

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

— Robert Smith Surtees

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