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Quote by Agnes Repplier
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants,

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. – Agnes Repplier

Other quotes by Agnes Repplier

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! – Agnes Repplier

Category:
Laughter
Author
Agnes Repplier
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. – Agnes Repplier

Category:
Leisure
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Agnes Repplier
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out. – Agnes Repplier

Category:
Cinema
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Agnes Repplier
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Other Quotes from
Coffee (or Tea)
category

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. – Thomas De Quincey

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Coffee (or Tea)

Only Irish Coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, fat. – Alex Levine

Category:
Coffee (or Tea)

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. – Dave Barry

Category:
Coffee (or Tea)

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. – Samuel Johnson

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Coffee (or Tea)

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