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It is best to let the horse go his way, and pretend it is yours. There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
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No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale – always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.
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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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Thus attired, with smiles assumed at the door, the young ladies entered the drawing-room in the full fervour of sisterly animosity.
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He was a gentleman who was generally spoken of as having nothing a-year, paid quarterly.
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Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.
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Robert Smith Surtees
Born:
May 17, 1805
Died:
March 16, 1864
(aged 58)
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