Tea

Tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. It has a cooling, slightly bitter, astringent flavour which many people enjoy.

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Famous quotes containing the word tea:

    “When one has tea and wine one will have many friends.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “When the tea is brought at five o’clock,
    And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
    The little black cat with bright green eyes
    Is suddenly purring there.”
    —Harold Monro (1879–1932)

    “It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.”
    —Agnes Repplier (1858–1950)