Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Luxury Quotes

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

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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

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Morals are a luxury of the rich.

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

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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

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

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

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

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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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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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