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• A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially of the stomach. This they drink in the morning early in the open places before everybody, without any fear or regard, out of clay or China cups, as hot as they can, sipping it a little at a time.

  Leonhard Rauwolf

  Morning, Black, Cups

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• I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.

  Harper Lee

  Dream, Home, Golf

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• Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place, and it loses its rank smell and taste.

  Catharine Beecher

  Smell, Bags, Dry

  Catharine Beecher (2013). “Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

  Jonathan Swift

  Drink, Quails, Wales

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.435

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• Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Black, Jackets, Ready

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

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• It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Notebook, Writing, Water

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• Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the characteristic moist, soft coffee sugar of the country, which melts five times as fast as our hard granulated. For breakfast larger cups are used, and they're more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn't re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.

  Bob Brown

  Country, Drunk, Black

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• In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often this exhilarating beverage, that 'comforteth the brain and heateth and helpeth digestion' is made muddy and ill-flavoured! ... You may roast the berries 'to the queen's taste,' and grind them fresh every morning, and yet, if the golden liquid be not prepared in the most immaculate of coffee-pots, with each return of morning, a new disappointment awaits you.

  Janet McKenzie Hill

  Morning, Queens, Disappointment

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• Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Java, Stage, Descending

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Glory Road”, Berkley

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• Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice

  Wallace Stevens

  Sacrifice, Orange, Green

  Harmonium (1923) "Sunday Morning, I"

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• I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.

  Jewel

  People, Singing, San Diego

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• The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee. If he doesn't comment, he is not to be trusted.

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Wisdom, Men, Tests

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• I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.

  Ben Bernanke

  Responsibility, Years, Decision

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• By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Morning, Book, Fall

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• I take my coffee like I take my women... strong... black... and proud.

  Michael Ian Black

  Strong Women, Black, Proud

  "Fictional character: Michael". "Stella", www.imdb.com. (2005 - ).

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• That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

  Ed O'Neill

  Mom, Teacher, Drinking

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• I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Sugar, Cream, Knows

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.

  Gail Porter

  New York, Alarms, Get Up

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• If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.

  Nancy Astor

  Wife, Poison, Ifs

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• So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

  Sharon Olds

  Drinking, Marijuana, Smoking

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• Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

  Stephen Fry

  Moving, Machines, Limits

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• Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?

  Jack LaLanne

  Motivational, Good Morning, Dog

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• Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.

  Robert Nelson

  Attitude, Levels, Driving

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• So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

  John Steinbeck

  Pride, Two, Bottles

  Letter on August 20, 1947. "Steinbeck: A Life in Letters", 1976.

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• It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

  Jonathan Swift

  Mistake, Echoes, Voice

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “-5. Tracts, historical and political, during the reign of Queen Anne”, p.365

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