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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. – J.B. Priestley

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California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life… its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. – J.B. Priestley

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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? – J.B. Priestley

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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? – J.B. Priestley

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There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea. – Bernard-Paul Heroux

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“Would you like an adventure now…. or would you like to have your tea first?” Wendy said “tea first” quickly, and Michael pressed her hand in gratitude…. – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; if you are depressed, it will cheer you; if you are excited it will calm you. – William Ewart Gladstone

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“Tea” to the English is really a picnic indoors. – Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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