Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Book Quotes, Luxury Quotes

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

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Morals are a luxury of the rich.

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

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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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If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

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

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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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Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

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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 bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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

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It is a luxury to be understood.

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

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Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.

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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

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