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

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

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Let us have the luxury of silence.

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

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Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

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

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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

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

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Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

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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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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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