Commonplace Book
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The pleasures of afternoon tea run like a trickle of honey through English literature from Rupert Brooke’s wistful lines on the Old Vicarage at Grantchester to Miss Marple, calmly dissecting a case over tea-cakes at a seaside hotel.
—Stan Hey
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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday&ndesh;but never jam today
— Lewis Carroll
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Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
— Sir Walter Scott
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There is a widely held and quite erroneous belief that cricket is just another game.
— Prince Philip