"A cup of tea would restore my normality."
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"I always fear that creation will expire before teatime."
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"Harry found the [tea]... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest."
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"I like it when the waiter askes you if you want parmesan cheese on your dinner, yeah, give me essence of puke all over me tea!"
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"Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel."
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"An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it."
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"'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked around the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarked. 'There isn't any,' said the March Hare."
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"If at first you don't succeed, have a cup of tea."
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"I don't know what's happened to me. I've got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it."
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"She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea."
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"Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us."
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"Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion."
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"All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes."
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"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."
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"The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one."
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"Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea."
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"and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage"
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"You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far."
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"Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say "what kind of tea?""
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"A cup of tea is a cup of peace."
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