George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Order Quotes, Luxury Quotes

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

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

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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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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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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 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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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Luxury Quotes , Aristocracy Quotes

We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

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

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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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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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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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It is a luxury to be understood.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Luxury Quotes , Understanding Quotes

If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.

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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

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

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