Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Luxury Quotes, Bed Quotes

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 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 you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

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

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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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Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.

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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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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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

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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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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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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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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 goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

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It's a luxury to be understood.

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