Quote#Death
I am a sportsman all over, and to the back-bone – 'Unting is all…
Quote byRobert Smith Surtees · 1805–1864
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Handley Cross (1843), Ch. 7.
English (original)
I am a sportsman all over, and to the back-bone – 'Unting is all that's worth living for – all time is lost wot is not spent in 'unting – it is like the hair we breathe – if we have it not we die – it's the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger.
— Robert Smith Surtees
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