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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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No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.

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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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All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

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

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

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

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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

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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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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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I have a simple taste, only the best.

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

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

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

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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

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