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“Five o’clock tea” is a phrase . . .

July 28, 2009
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“Five o’clock tea” is a phrase our “rude forefathers,” even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completely is it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages,…

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Its proper use is to amuse the idle . .

July 28, 2009
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Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. — Samuel Johnson

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When you see the natural . . .

July 28, 2009
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When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their tea, you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his or her cup of tea. –Florence Nightingale

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Tea had come as a deliverer . . .

July 28, 2009
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Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong nerved , stout-purposed, slow-thinking men an women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides – firesides that were waiting…

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Enjoy life . . .

July 28, 2009
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Enjoy life sip by sip not gulp by gulp. – The Minister of Leaves

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If a man has no tea in him . . .

July 28, 2009
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If a man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. — Japanese proverb – Lu Tung

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What better way . . .

July 28, 2009
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What better way to suggest friendliness – and to create it – than with a cup of tea? — J. Grayson Luttrell

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It has been well said . . .

July 28, 2009
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. — Agnes Repplier

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Mick Jagger quotation

July 28, 2009
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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three. — Mick Jagger

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Each cup of tea . . .

July 28, 2009
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Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. — Catherine Douzel

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