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:~Eleanor Roosevelt

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

*Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

~Alice Walker

:~Alice Walker

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

~Abraham Lincoln

:~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

:~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

:~Audrey Hepburn

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

~Sydney Smith

:~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

:~Henry David Thoreau

*Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

~Henry Fielding

:~Henry Fielding

*Tea should be taken in solitude...

~C.S. Lewis

:~C.S. Lewis

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

~C. S. Lewis

:~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

:~Elie Wiesel

*Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.

~Catherine Douzel

:~Catherine Douzel

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

~A. Milne

:~A. Milne

== Japanese ==

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 :~Eleanor Roosevelt
-Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
+*Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
-~Alice Walker
+:~Alice Walker
 *If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
-~Abraham Lincoln
+:~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
+:~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
+:~Audrey Hepburn
 *In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time.
-~Sydney Smith
+:~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
+:~Henry David Thoreau
 *Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
-~Henry Fielding
+:~Henry Fielding
 *Tea should be taken in solitude...
-~C.S. Lewis
+:~C.S. Lewis
 *You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
-~C. S. Lewis
+:~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
+:~Elie Wiesel
 *Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.
-~Catherine Douzel
+:~Catherine Douzel
 A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.
-~A. Milne
+:~A. Milne
 == Japanese ==