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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

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

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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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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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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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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

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

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

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

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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

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

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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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