Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,
And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups,
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,
So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
William Cowper, The Task (1785)
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C.S. Lewis
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There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
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Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
Sydney Smith, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
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Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.
Catherine Douzel
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I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.
Sydney Smith
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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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Tea...is a religion of the art of life.
Okakura
