"There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life."
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"If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death."
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"Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky."
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"There is not enough tea in the world to calm me."
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"Animals shouldn't eat gumdrops! They shouldn't drink tea or chocolate milk, either."
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"Make different teas with the superherbs or create new smoothies with the superfoods. Better yet, take your superherb tea and blend it with your superfoods to make the best elixirs ever."
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"What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?"
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""Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more.""
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"A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked."
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"I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him."
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"She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as he pronounced it excellent, "You see, I know just how you like it." This tea had indeed seemed to Swann, just as it seemed to her; something precious, and love has such a need to find some justification for itself, some guarantee of duration, in pleasures which without it would have no existence and must cease with its passing."
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"The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected."
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"It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week."
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"This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her: the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot. At any rate I'll never go THERE again!' said Alice as she picked her way through the wood. "It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!"
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"[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch."
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"A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains."
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"Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea."
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"The only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is the Clash baby!"
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"One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed."
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"The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy."
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