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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

:~Eleanor Roosevelt

tea leaves<br/>

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never.<br/>

:~Uniek Swain

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

:~Alice Walker

I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga.

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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

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

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

In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time.

:~Sydney Smith

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

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

:~Henry Fielding

Tea should be taken in solitude...

:~C.S. Lewis

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

:~C. S. Lewis

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

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

Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.

:~Catherine Douzel

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.

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=== Lu Yu ===

Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from heaven.

The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable.

It is especially fitting for persons of self-restraint and inner worth.

Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.

Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness.

The clouds above us join and separate,

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Who can stop us from celebrating?

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.

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 A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
 :~Eleanor Roosevelt
 tea leaves<br/>
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 never.<br/>
 :~Uniek Swain
 Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
 :~Alice Walker
 I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga.
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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
 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
 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
 In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time.
 :~Sydney Smith
 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
 Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
 :~Henry Fielding
 Tea should be taken in solitude...
 :~C.S. Lewis
 You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
 :~C. S. Lewis
 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
 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
 Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.
 :~Catherine Douzel
 A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.
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 === Lu Yu ===
- Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from heaven.
+Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from heaven.
- The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable.
+The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable.
 It is especially fitting for persons of self-restraint and inner worth.
- Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.
+Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.
- Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness.
+Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness.
 The clouds above us join and separate,
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 Who can stop us from celebrating?
- 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.
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