"Assafoetida" Quotes from Famous Books
... scamps and profligates in youth, and, luckily for mankind, generally worn-out before they attain the wrong side of forty. A stable is their delight, almost their home, and their olfactories are refreshed by nothing so much as by the smell of old litter, to which attar of roses is assafoetida in comparison. ... — Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various |