“The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science, their labour bore fruit.”

—  George Mikes

How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)

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Hungarian-born British author 1912–1987

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