Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoymen… - Robert Smith Surtees

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Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.

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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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."

Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments. - Robert Smith Surtees

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