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“And then I saw the menu, stained with tea and beautifully written by a foreign hand, and on top it said..."Chips with everything". Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.”

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Author:Arnold Wesker

“A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.”

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Book:Plain Facts for Old and Young

Source: Plain Facts for Old and Young

“As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.”

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Book:The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945

Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945

“Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.”

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Book:Craig Claiborne's New York Times Food Encyclopedia

Source: Craig Claiborne's New York Times Food Encyclopedia

“I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.”

Food Cooking Tea Culinary Breakfast Pot Blackpool

Author:Paul O'Grady

“Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hôtel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the éclairs stuffed with cream.”

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Book:The Comedians

Source: The Comedians

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln

“Coffee isn't my cup of tea.”

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Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.”

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Author:George Gissing

“I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.”

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Book:The Dramatic Works of Colley Cibber ...: In Five Volumes : Volume the Second

Source: The Dramatic Works of Colley Cibber ...: In Five Volumes : Volume the Second

“Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.”

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Book:The Soup Book: 770 Recipes

Source: The Soup Book: 770 Recipes

“The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.”

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Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160

“I hire tea by the tea bag.”

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Book:Money

Source: Money

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