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“Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.”

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Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, was a prominent British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Born on May 7, 1847, and died on May 21, 1929, he is remembered for his reformist policies and foreign policy initiatives. more

“Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it mindfully create heart-to-heart conviviality, a way to go beyond this world and enter a realm apart. No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering agent more benign.”

World Way Heart Spiritual Pleasure Consciousness This World Clarity Agents Luxury Tea Realms Preparing Tranquility Cheaper Benign Heart To Heart Refreshments Elixir

Author:James Norwood Pratt

“The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.”

Humans May Wonder Tears Blame Cups Tea Enjoyment Infinity Outsiders Thirst Seeming Tempest Drained Dregs

Book:The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

Source: The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

“In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius.”

May Sweet Worship Flow Warm Tea Queens Streams Why Not Altars Liquid Amber Ivory Bacchus Porcelain Reticence

Book:The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

Source: The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

“If you have one teapot And can brew your tea in it That will do quite well. How much does he lack himself Who must have a lot of things?”

Ifs Wells Doe Enough Tea Lacking Brewing Teapots

Author:Sen no Rikyu

“Because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological.”

Problem Solutions Theological Handiwork

Book:The Knowledge of the Holy

Source: The Knowledge of the Holy

“God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.”

God Tree Wind Pleasant March Mulberry

Book:The Works of George Peele: David and Bethsabe. Battle of Alcazar. Device of the pageant borne before Woolstone Dixi. Descensus Astrææ. A farewell to Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake, &c., and a Tale of Troy. Polyhymnia. The honour of the Garter. Misc

Source: The Works of George Peele: David and Bethsabe. Battle of Alcazar. Device of the pageant borne before Woolstone Dixi. Descensus Astrææ. A farewell to Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake, &c., and a Tale of Troy. Polyhymnia. The honour of the Garter. Misc

Quote by Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

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