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TEA…

It keeps the eye wakeful, the head clear, animates the intellectual powers. Thomas Short – Discourse on Tea

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TEA, THE FAVOURITE BEVERAGE…

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities – will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual. Thomas De Quincy (1785 – 1859) English critic and essayist

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FAMOUS QUOTE ON BREAD…

“The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution.” Tobias Smollett, ‘The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker’ (1771)