Al Gini Quotes, Order Quotes, Luxury Quotes

Part of the true luxury of "earned laziness" are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It is a badge of distinction, an emblem of success, without having to say too much about it. It labels us, affords us kudos, and raises our profile in the "pecking order" of our fellow troglodytes. It says to others, "See, I've done so well that I can afford to do nothing at all whenever I so choose!

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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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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Luxury Quotes , Bed Quotes

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

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

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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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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Dream Quotes , Luxury Quotes

Taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses. Since we human beings come from Nature, there is no point in our going against nature, which is why I say the environment is not a matter of religion or ethics or morality. These are luxuries, since we can survive without them. But we will not survive if we continue to go against nature.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Luxury Quotes , House 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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Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

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

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

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

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Let us have the luxury of silence.

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

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When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon carriages of necessary use, such as carts, wagons, etc. the indolence and vanity of the rich is made to contribute in a very easy manner to the relief of the poor, by rendering cheaper the transportation of heavy goods to all the different parts of the country.

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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Book Quotes , Luxury Quotes