Quote by J.B. Priestley
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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Places
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We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable. – J.B. Priestley

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Prosperity
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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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Deciding to spice up the morning by filling the kettle slightly past the recommended level, then thinking better of it. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse

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Tea

The man breathed in deeply—of rosebuds and mint, of sunny meadows and salty cliffs, of streams in no hurry and the sound of bagpipes. – Ethel Pochocki, Wildflower Tea, 1993

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Tea

She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon. – Clive Barker

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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. – Japanese Proverb

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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. – Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. – Arthur Miller

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