“If you are cold, tea will warm you;
if you are too heated, it will cool you;
If you are depressed, it will cheer you;
If you are excited, it will calm you.”
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if you are too heated, it will cool you;
If you are depressed, it will cheer you;
If you are excited, it will calm you.”
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“There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.”
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“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.”
― A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith; 2 volume set
― A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith; 2 volume set
“Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?”
― Zen and Japanese Culture
― Zen and Japanese Culture
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