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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

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As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

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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 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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Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

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If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

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Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

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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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Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

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

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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.

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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!

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Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

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