Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Luxury Quotes

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

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

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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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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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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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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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If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.

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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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It is a luxury to be understood.

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

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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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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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