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  • “By generally sniftering round wherever business could be done,” he was later to say, “and without this flair for sniftering, no man starting from the bottom can make money on a large scale—I discovered fresh avenues whereby additional financial grist rolled into the bank’s till.”

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • “By generally sniftering round wherever business could be done,” he was later to say, “and without this flair for sniftering, no man starting from the bottom can make money on a large scale—I discovered fresh avenues whereby additional financial grist rolled into the bank’s till.”

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • When I was a sniftering little bowdikite, not bigger than a keelman’s

    Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund Anonymous 1829

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