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I view the tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an engenderer of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth, and a maker of misery for old age.

From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by Cobbett, William