Better be killed than frightened to death. - Robert Smith Surtees

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Better be killed than frightened to death.

Robert Smith Surtees

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About Robert Smith Surtees

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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