A Coffee House
The coffee houses are indeed an essential part of Stamboul…. No quarter is so miserable or so remote as to be without one . . .. The habit of the coffee-house is one that requires a certain leisure. Being a passion less violent and shameful than others, I suppose, it is indulged in with more of the humanities. You do not bolt your coffee as you bolt the fire-waters of the West, without ceremony, in retreats withdrawn from the public eye.
--from Constantinople, Setting and Traits by H. G. Dwight.
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