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Quote by George Mikes
The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink.

The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit. – George Mikes

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You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. – George Mikes

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On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners. – George Mikes

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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. – Henry James

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Coffee falls into the stomach … ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop … the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink… – Honore de Balzac

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Or to some coffee-house I stray,
For news, the manna of the day,
And from the hipp – Matthew Green

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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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