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English writer (1805-1864)
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Robert Smith Surtees 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. He is remembered for his invented character of Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer.
“Mr. Jorrocks then called upon the company in succession for a toast, a song, or a sentiment. Nimrod gave, "The Royal Staghounds"; Crane gave, "Champagne to our real friends, and real pain to our sham friends."”
“There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.”
“Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.”
“It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.”
“He was a gentleman who was generally spoken of as having nothing a-year, paid quarterly.”
“When at length they rose to go to bed, it struck each man as he followed his neighbour upstairs that the one before him walked very crookedly.”
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