"Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England."
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"Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her."
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"I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock."
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"According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea."
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"You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea."
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"Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters."
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"Paramore will be the neighbor that comes over for tea and never leaves."
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"If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea."
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"When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water."
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"Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas."
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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."
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"People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters."
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"Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner."
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"If I am totally honest, I would have to say that ''Allo 'Allo!' was not my cup of tea, even though lots of people loved it. For that reason, I find comedy fascinating. There is a huge difference between what people find funny."
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"Note to self: It's hard to attain a state of no-mind when you're incredibly pumped up on tea and sugar and have to urinate every three and a half minutes."
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"My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread."
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"I made these Sierra trips, carrying only a sackful of bread with a little tea and sugar, and was thus independent and free."
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"prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care for it. Those who are in great distress want no food, but if it is handed to them, they will mechanically take it ' ... There was something arresting about the matter-of-fact wisdom here, the instinctive understanding of the physiological disruptions... I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat."
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"My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!"
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"It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment,— for they would have been hoarse and faint if they had gone on much longer."
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