1. “…we wrapped up in blankets and took our steaming mugs into the garden. He had that puffy eye-d half-stare from lack of sleep. It wasn’t dawn, quite, and we sat there for less than five minutes but I was shivering. The stars had fizzed away and suddenly he pressed his hand against my thigh…I thought he was goign to kiss me but just smiled and asked: “More tea?”
    my diary, Summer 2000.

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  2. “Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.”
    Alice Walker

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  3. “Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.”
    Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

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