Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes, Luxury Quotes, Aristocracy Quotes

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

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I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.

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The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

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The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

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Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up

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Part of the true luxury of "earned laziness" are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It is a badge of distinction, an emblem of success, without having to say too much about it. It labels us, affords us kudos, and raises our profile in the "pecking order" of our fellow troglodytes. It says to others, "See, I've done so well that I can afford to do nothing at all whenever I so choose!

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The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

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The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

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Having a kid made me realize, "I have to take care of this kid, but I can't have the luxury of dropping everything in the world and spending every waking moment with him. I've got to work."

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies - oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore.

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive.

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

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It is a luxury to be understood.

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