Oscar Wilde Quotes, Luxury Quotes, Extravagance Quotes

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

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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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The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive.

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Committing to a lifetime of wellness is not a luxury-it's a necessity. You'll never have enough time; you have to make the time.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

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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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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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Books, indeed, were his sole 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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All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

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I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

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

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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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Let us have the luxury of silence.

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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