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• There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea.

  Charles Dickens

  Dust, Foundation, Ceilings

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.34

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• After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a small, thin, flat voice, which I remembered to have considered, when I first knew her, the very table-beer of acoustics) the favourite ballads of "The Dashing White Sergeant", and "Little Tafflin".

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Beer, Fire

  Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.312, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on the front lawn. Dad loved classical music and we might be listening to some Stravinsky or something and having some tea and eggs. And he'd say, 'Oh, good stuff, isn't it?'

  Jennifer Grant

  Dad, Simple, Eggs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm always just carrying a Tupperware cup, ever since my mom went to a Tupperware party and got 'em. I've left them strewn all over the U.S. and Europe. I drink iced tea out of them.

  Si Robertson

  Mom, Party, Europe

  "'Duck Dynasty' star Uncle Si talks iced tea, marriage troubles and God" by Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morningwith a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Wise, Drinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky;
  It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by;
  For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat,
  With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Night, Sky, Lamps

  1885 A Child's Garden of Verses, no.30,'The Lamplighter', stanza1.

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• Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis 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, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.

  Lewis Carroll

  Rude, Mind, Age

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• In lecturing on cookery, as on housebuilding, I divide the subject into, not four, but five grand elements: first, Bread; second,Butter; third, Meat; fourth, Vegetables; and fifth, Tea--by which I mean, generically, all sorts of warm, comfortable drinks served out in teacups, whether they be called tea, coffee, chocolate, broma, or what not. I affirm that, if these five departments are all perfect, the great ends of domestic cookery are answered, so far as the comfort and well-being of life are concerned.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Coffee, Mean, Vegetables

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “House and Home Papers”, p.230, Applewood Books

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• I think we are all of us a pretty milky lot, without tea-table convictions and our radicalism that keeps so consistently within the bounds of decorum . . . .I'd like to annihilate these stupid colleges of ours . . . instillers of stodginess.

  John Dos Passos

  Stupid, College, Thinking

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• I can remember the day when all that a professor was supposed to do was to mark "C minus" on students' examination papers, then gohome to tea. Nowadays they seem to feel that they must know just how much we (outside the university) eat, what we do with our spare time, and how we like our eggs.

  Robert Benchley

  Eggs, Paper, Examination

  Robert Benchley (1943). “Benchley beside himself”

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• [T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants--neither alcohol nor meat--are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.

  Angela Carter

  Childhood, Alcohol, Comforting

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• O how terrible it must be for a young man--
  seated before a family and the family thinking
  We never saw him before! He wants our Mary Lou!
  After tea and homemade cookies they ask What do you do for a living

  Gregory Corso

  Thinking, Men, Saws

  Gregory Corso (1960). “The Happy Birthday of Death”, p.29, New Directions Publishing

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• I just am a believer...that there are some things that happen for a reason...We may not be able to really discern it now...[but] given the perspective of time, I think we're going to be able to look back at this, and what seemed really bad at the time may turn out to be really good.

  Eric Cantor

  Party, Thinking, Perspective

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• Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force.

  Howard Fineman

  Party, Unions, Republican

  "The Real Political Math In Wisconsin" by Howard Fineman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2011.

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• Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is warming.' The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and you're going to say that we had four hurricanes and so it proves a theory?

  Rand Paul

  Nature, Party, Science

  "Rand Paul bashes ‘alarmist,’ ‘ignoramus’ climate change claims" By Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. April 23, 2014.

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• Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

  Christina Stead

  Drinking, Europe, India

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.419, The Miegunyah Press

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• As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

  Mark McKinnon

  Strong, Party, Voice

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• We can stop thinking that good practice is when it’s smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it’s rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Dark, Thinking

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.109, Shambhala Publications

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• We could learn to stop when the sun goes down and when the sun comes up. We could learn to listen to the wind; we could learn to notice that it's raining or snowing or hailing or calm. We could reconnect with the weather that is ourselves, and we could realize that it's sad. The sadder it is, and the vaster it is, the more our heart opens. We can stop thinking that good practice is when it's smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it's rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.

  Pema Chodron

  Rain, Heart, Dark

  "The Wisdom of No Escape". Book by Pema Chodron, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1991.

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• Tea-baggers love the truth. They just hate facts.

  Bill Maher

  Hate, Facts, Bagger

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• An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Age, Forget

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• Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Views, Mountain, Essentials

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• Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast.

  Mason Cooley

  Electric, Pornography, Kettles

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• much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Coffee, Land, Growing

  Frances Moore Lappé (1971). “Diet for a Small Planet”

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• Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.

  James M. Barrie

  Cups, Life Is, Drink

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)”, p.18, Jazzybee Verlag

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