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Some people would answer that they don't like tea
            in and of itself, that they only drink it in order to be
            warmed and stimulated, and they need sugar to
            take the taste away. To those misguided people        fortnight
                                                                   quincena
            I would say: Try drinking tea without sugar for,       (n.):
            say, a fortnight, and it is very unlikely that you will
            ever want to ruin your tea by sweetening it again.


            These are not the only controversial points to
            arise in connexion with tea drinking, but they
            are sufficient to show how subtilized the whole
            business has become. There is also the mysterious
            social etiquette surrounding the teapot (why is
            it considered vulgar to drink out of your saucer,
            for instance?) and much might be written about
            the subsidiary uses of tea leaves, such as telling
            fortunes, predicting the arrival of visitors, feeding
            rabbits, healing burns and sweeping the carpet.
            It is worth paying attention to such details as
            warming the pot and using water that is really
            boiling, so as to make quite sure of wringing out
            of one's ration the twenty good, strong cups that
            two ounces, properly handled, ought
            to represent.
























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