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It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.

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In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs.

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

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... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.

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If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

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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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Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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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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Let us have the luxury of silence.

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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

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The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

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When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

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Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

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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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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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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

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