He was a gentleman who was generally spoken of as having no… - Robert Smith Surtees

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He was a gentleman who was generally spoken of as having nothing a-year, paid quarterly.

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.

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He was a gentleman who was generally spoken of as having nothing a-year, paid quarterly. - Robert Smith Surtees

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