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lessness which continues to the early morning, is from exhaustion 

 often and is relieved by tea. In general, the dry and dirty tongue 

 always prefers tea to coffee and will quite decline milk, unless with 

 tea. Coffee is a better restorative than tea, but a greater impairer 

 of the digestion. 



In making coffee, it is absolutely necessary to buy it in the 

 berry and grind it at home, or see it ground. Otherwise you may 

 reckon upon its containing a certain amount of chicory, at least. 

 This is not a question or the taste or of the wholesomeness of 

 chicory; it is that chicory has nothing at all of the properties for 

 which you give coffee ; and therefore you may as well not give it, 



