The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is al… - Robert Smith Surtees

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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.

Robert Smith Surtees

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Robert Smith Surtees (May 17 1805 – March 16 1864) was an English journalist, comic novelist and writer on field sports. His best-known creation, the Cockney huntsman Jorrocks, inspired Dickens's Pickwick Papers.

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Alternative Names: "Handley Cross," "Sponge's sporting tour," "Ask Mamma," etc. etc., Author of,

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There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.

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."

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.

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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