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Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
Christopher Fry, British Playwright. New York Post (29 Nov. 1962).

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
Oliver Wendall Holmes, Sr., U.S. writer, physician. Over the Teacups, ch. 1 (1891).

If the horseshoe sinks, then drink it.
Plains Recipe for Coffee.

Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
Alexander Pope, English satirical poet. Rape of the Lock (1712).

Black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love.
Turkish Proverb.

After a few months' acquaintance with European "coffee," one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.
Mark Twain, U.S.author. A Tramp Abroad, ch. 49 (1880).

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . .Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
Coleman Dowell. Mrs. October Was Here, Tasmania, Now, (1973).

It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.
Malcolm X. Message to the Grass Roots Speech, Nov. 1963, Detroit (published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 1, 1965).

Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.
William Burroughs. The Adding Machine, Remembering Jack Kerouac (1985).

We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitian president. New York Times (October 5, 1994).

Look here Steward, if this is coffee, I want tea; but if this is tea, then I wish for coffee.
Punch. Vol. CXXII, p.44.

If you'll excuse me a minute, I'm going to have a cup of coffee.
Broadcast from Apollo 11's LEM, "Eagle", to Johnson Space Center, Houston (July 20, 1969).

He put the coffee in the cup. He put the milk in the cup of coffee. He put the sugar in the white coffee, with the teaspoon he stirred. He drank the white coffee and he put the cup down. Without speaking to me.
Jacques Prevert. Dejeuner du Matin.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S. Elliot. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
Mark Helprin. Memoir from Antproof Case (1995).

O Coffee, thou dost dispel all care, thou art the object of desire to the scholar.
Arabic Poem. (1511).

Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
Jonothan Swift. (1722).

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