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The Way I See It #280 You can learn a lot more from listening than you can from talking. Find someone with whom you don't agree in the slightest and ask them to explain themselves at length. Then take a seat, shut your mouth, and don't argue back. It's physically impossible to listen with your mouth open. John Moe, Radio Host and author of Conservatize Me.

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain." Louisa May Alcott

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., "Over the Teacups," 1891

Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water. The Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674

This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder. Honore de Balzac, "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee"

"It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war." Frederick the Great of Prussia (1777)

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques"

There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime. Sydney Smith( 1771–1845)

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea?—how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. Sydney Smith (1771–1845), Recipe for Salad. p. 383.

We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe. Rudyard Kipling

It's a dangerous business going out your front door. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

"Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place" Sir Edmund Spenser

"Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king" Sir Edmund Spenser

"For take thy balance if thou be so wise And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow." Sir Edmund Spenser

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. Jane Austen