"Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea."

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Source : Sydney Smith, lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.436

Sydney Smith

#Tea Quotes #Thank God Quotes #World Quotes

“I feel this way about a lot of movies, that the characters are idealized versions of people. For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.”
“Hey Bieber, I had the initials JB first.. Where's my 15%?”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 10, 2010
“Im a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so Im never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.”
“I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choiceâ€¦”
“The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.”
“When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.”

Source : FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Nov 27, 2015
“Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in some lodges the accepted or gentleman masons had gained the ascendancy: those lodges became, in turn speculative lodges, whilst others continued their purely operative nature. The speculative lodges eventually combined to form the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1736.”

Source : John Hamill (1986). “The Craft: A History of English Freemasonry”, HarperCollins
“We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.”

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