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Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.

Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anythi...

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When you go out hunting wicked spirits, it's the simple things that matter most. The silvered point ...

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My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle...

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When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on...

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Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly."I've had nothing yet," Alice repl...

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(Malory, unhopeful: "I don't suppose you have any tea?" Jesse: "DO YOU WANT EARL GREY OR DARJEELING?...

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Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine,Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;Custards f...

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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

Stands the Church clock at ten to three?And is there honey still for tea?

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dearI like my toast done on one sid

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

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Sydney SmithThe Sayings of Sydney Smith

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

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Sydney SmithThe Sayings of Sydney Smith

Now that lilacs are in bloomShe has a bowl of lilacs in her roomAnd twists one in her fingers while ...

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T. S. EliotPrufrock and Other Observations

Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'c...

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Thomas De QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium Eater

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on...

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Thomas JeffersonAutobiography of Thomas Jefferson

Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,And, whil...

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William CowperThe Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often rac...

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There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

Shall I make you a cup of tea? He asked. It was the classic response to crisis practiced throughout ...

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I take a few quick sips. "This is really good." And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It...

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Amy TanThe Kitchen God's Wife

I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was high...

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who...

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The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back obj...

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The proper, wise balancingof one's whole life may depend upon thefeasibility of a cup of tea at an u...

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Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: ...

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Beatrix PotterThe Tale of Peter Rabbit

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

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Bill WattersonThe Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Tea should be taken in solitude.

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C. S. LewisSurprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to fin...

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A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported whatthe rest of her poor dress was made of, b...

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Good. Drink your tea," he ordered. "It will make you feel better."Nothing will make me feel better, ...

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Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with...

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Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scone...

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Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother do...

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Dylan ThomasA Child's Christmas in Wales

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good pi...

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Mam was always saying we had a simple diet: tea and bread, bread and tea, a liquid and a solid, a ba...

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All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year tha...

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Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea.

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

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George OrwellSmothered Under Journalism: 1946

When the tea is brought at five o'clockAnd all the neat curtains are drawn with care,The little blac...

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Harold MonroCollected Poems

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women o...

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