O. Henry Quotes, Luxury Quotes, Atmosphere Quotes

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

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No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.

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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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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 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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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

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

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

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Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

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

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

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Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up

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

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

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I have a simple taste, only the best.

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The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

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

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

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