George Whyte-Melville

George John Whyte-Melville (1821–1878) was a Scottish novelist of the sporting-field.

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• When you sleep in your cloak there ’s no lodging to pay.
  • Boots and Saddles.

• For everything created
  In the bounds of earth and sky
  Has such longing to be mated,
  It must couple or must die.
  • Like to Like.

• Ah, better to love in the lowliest cot
  Than pine in a palace alone.
  • Chastelar.