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Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.

—Frances Hardinge

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For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

—T.S. Eliot

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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

—C.S. Lewis

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I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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Where there’s tea there’s hope.

—Arthur Wing Pinero

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Bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.

—David Lynch

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Tea is the elixir of life.

—Lao Tzu

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Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.

—Fran Drescher

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Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

—Alice Walker

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Coffee first. Schemes after.

—Leanna Renee Hieber

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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

—Alexander Pushkin

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As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

—Cassandra Clare

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There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.

—Bernard-Paul Heroux

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Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.

—Alphonse Allais

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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.

—William Ewart Gladstone

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I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

—Burt Lancaster

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Tea is the finest solution to nearly every catastrophe and conundrum that the day may bring.

—Unknown

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Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.

—Stephanie Piro

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I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.

—Lewis Black

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Poem: My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop

Poem: Tea Garden

Poem: ode to coffee

Poem: The Tea and Sage Poem

Poem: A Poem is a Café

The five stages of waking up

A mad tea party

Tea

Coffee

RZA, GZA & Bill Murray connect over tea & coffee

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