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“I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.
— James Boswell
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James Boswell, Boswell's London Journal, 1762–1763. James Boswell, Frederick Albert Pottle. Yale University Press, 2004. , page 189.
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