That aside, some gems:

“…Among certain weak natures, coffee produces only a kind of harmless congestion of the mind; instead of feeling animated, these people feel drowsy, and they say that coffee makes them sleep. Such individuals may have the legs of serfs and the stomachs of os- triches, but they are badly equipped for the work of thought.”

“If the experience of the English is typical, heavy tea-drinking will produce English moral philosophy, a tendency toward a pale complexion, hypocrisy and backbiting.”

There is a trickling, a grating, a stutter of cinders or light.

It catches my lungs, a breath of cinnamon.

I cough, as though I have swallowed coffee grounds.

The tea bag blessed with warm water lies there glistening

like birdseed in gauze in the colorless round of the pond.

It was as if someone had dropped a stone in a pond,

how your pupils used to expand. Or did the irises

shrink and expand, much as the flaming ring

on the stove does when I turn it down, then up?

Memory (I have poured the tea) blows on her hands.

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mqrarchive/act2080.0035.002/15?...

https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Trait%C3%A9_des_excitants_mod...

The part about coffee is halfway down the page under the heading §III — du café.

I've been drinking coffee for 20 years and had always assumed that I was just an anxious, paranoid person. Quitting made me realize that I really wasn't.

Quitting/reducing has also cured my itchy skin problem.

I also highly recommend the subreddit r/decaf as a great source of information.

Middle ages, things are a bit sleepy, dopey. Everybody is drinking beer all the time. progress runs at a slow pace.

Then there is this popular new tea sweeping the scene and boy howdy does it get you up and going. Now people are waking up and doing things.

Caffeine, It's a hell of a drug.

One day, I decided that I would quit, and what followed was around 8 days of the worst headache I have had in a long time.

Now, I wake full of energy and feeling sharp.

The smell of coffee makes me want one, but the dullness and headache are good deterrents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_English_Opiu...

The first thing that came to mind was to become a coffee grower, farmer, producer or something with coffee.

Now I cant shake that thought!

https://web.archive.org/web/20121008201138/https://www.nytim...