"Who, sitting down to tea after hours spent in country sunshine, can fail to tell himself that he is living in a far more fortunate period than either the age of Pericles or the Middle Ages? Who would willingly turn the hands of the clock back to a time before tea had been brought into Europe? Sentimentalists who put Merrie England in the Middle Ages surely forgot that Merrie England was a tea-less England and by so much the less merry than England to-day."
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Robert Lynd, "Happy England", The Green Man, 1928.
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