It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily … - Isabella Beeton

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I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.

Isabella Beeton

It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances, they may be dispensed with without disadvantage to the merely animal functions, but it is an error, certainly, to conclude from this that they may be altogether dispensed with in reference to their effects; and It is a question whether, if we had no tea and no coffee, the popular instinct would not seek for and discover the means of replacing them.

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Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc. , being brought in as other guests arrive.

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As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined.

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Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

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Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.

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Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.

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