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Paint me an eternal tea-pot, for I usually drink tea from eight o'clock at night to four o'clock in the morning.


Thomas De Quincey

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JOHN STUART BLACKIE Chrysanthemum
Silence - monk
Sips his morning tea.
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ANGELA HYNES Come and share a pot of tea,
my home is warm and my friendship’s free.
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I had a little tea party
This afternoon at three.
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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inex...
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ANTHONY T. HINCKS I explained to him - as I withdrew the cup, ripped open the sachet and dunked the tea bag - that tea...
WILL SELF Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and two for tea
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JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER I found myself when I least expected you- at the same old rocking chair in the room with the same fl...
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBERKAUR GUMBER Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth."

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MICK JAGGER I got nasty habits; I take tea at three
MICK JAGGER I like pouring your tea, lifting
the heavy pot, and tipping it up,
so the fragrant liquid ...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results...
THOMAS JEFFERSON No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by who...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
THOMAS GRAY Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
THOMAS JEFFERSON