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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth."

[From: 19 Lessons On Tea]


Alexander Pushkin

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A-Thro...
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sage and venerable liquid ...
to whose glorious insipidity, COLLEY CIBBER Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.
JONATHAN STROUD it is to be savored like a
seabreeze-whispered

dream...in the mysterious
blue ...
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And is there honey still for tea?
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MARY LOU HEISS Can I fetch you something, madam? A cup of tea?’
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CATHY PERNOCK Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look ...
W.B. YEATS Clarity in my cup. Transparency of my soul. Lucidity of myself.
Elixir of the ages. Tea makes ...
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‘That’s how it’s supposed to be ...
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She has a bowl of lilacs in her room
And twists one in her fi...
T.S. ELIOT Eva: I don't want any tea.

Lil: Don’t make me have it on my own.
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Nor take her tea without a strategem.
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Nothing will make me f...
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IRFA ADAM Life is like a game of chess.
To win you have to make a move.
Knowing which move to make c...
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MARTINE BAILEY You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
The...
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GEORGIA BARRETT Когда ты впервые пьешь чай с горцами балти, ты - чужак. В...
GREG MORTENSON Yep," I say, cutting a large slice of the Dutch Baby pancake and sliding it onto her plate along wit...
STACEY BALLIS I take a few quick sips. "This is really good." And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It...
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Some say it’s half empty and sink,
I feel you...
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ALEXANDER POPE When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh...
JAIMIE ALEXANDER Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
ALEXANDER POPE But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
ALEXANDER POPE Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
ALEXANDER HERZEN Most women have no characters at all.
ALEXANDER POPE Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil...
ALEXANDER POPE All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know t...
ALEXANDER TROCCHI Most authors steal their works, or buy.
ALEXANDER POPE Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPE True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
ALEXANDER POPE Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
ALEXANDER POPE Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
ALEXANDER POPE I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
ALEXANDER POPE They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
ALEXANDER POPE We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
ALEXANDER POPE Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ALEXANDER POPE Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the...
ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
ALEXANDER POPE Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
ALEXANDER POPE Our envy of others devours us most of all
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN