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== Japanese ==
== Japanese ==
The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly.
The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly.
== Various people ==
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
:~Eleanor Roosevelt
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tea leaves<br/>
tea loves<br/>
loves tea<br/>
lives tea<br/>
leaves tea?<br/>
never.<br/>
:~Uniek Swain
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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
:~Alice Walker
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I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga.
:~Moby
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
:~Abraham Lincoln
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The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.
:~Bill Maher
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When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
:~Audrey Hepburn
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In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time.
:~Sydney Smith
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
:~Henry David Thoreau
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
:~Henry Fielding
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Tea should be taken in solitude...
:~C.S. Lewis
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
:~C. S. Lewis
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If you ask Zen people they will say tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.
:~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.
:~Elie Wiesel
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Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.
:~Catherine Douzel
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A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.
:~A. Milne
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