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“If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.”
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“598. An empty Sack cannot stand upright.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1740) : An empty bag will not stand upright.
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“There are two things in life that keep me motivated, a cup of coffee and a second cup of coffee.”
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“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Context: Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all: —
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.

“Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.”

“I hope someday to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.”