Teas proper use is to amuse the idle and relax the studious and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise and will not use abstinence.
Essay on Tea 1757.
Samuel Johnson
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our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt cynicism distrust boredom and a strange kind of emptiness
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