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My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

— Wilkie Collins The Woman in White (1859)

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Also in The Secret Ingredient by Laura Schaefer [Simon & Schuster, 2012, ISBN 1-442-41960-1] (p. 169)

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