“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

Source: Recipe for Salad, p. 383
Source: A memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith

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English writer and clergyman 1771–1845

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