'...My uncle and he are perfectly agreed in their estimate of life, which, Quin says, would stink in his nostrils, if he did not steep it in claret.'
from Jerry Melford's letter to Sir Watkin Phillips, dated April 30, in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
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