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

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

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

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

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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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Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.

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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

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If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

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It is a luxury to be understood.

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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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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

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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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Morals are a luxury of the rich.

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

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