Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.
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For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is
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Blest hour! It was a luxury to be!
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Trace science then, with modesty thy guide; First strip off all her equipage of pride; Deduct what is but vanity, or dress, Or learning's luxury, or idleness; Or tricks to show the stretch of human brain, Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain; Expunge
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Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
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We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
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People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.
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I am taught the poorness of our invention, the ugliness of towns and palaces. Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty. I am over instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please
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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
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Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.
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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
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Negative thinking is always expensivedragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physicallyhence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.
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Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
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A family, although not a necessity, is the ultimate luxury.
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Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.
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To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.
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Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
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Instead of this we have luxury and avarice; public indigence side by side with private opulence; we glorify wealth and pursue idleness; between the worthy and the unworthy we make no distinction; all the prizes of virtue are awarded to ambition.
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about
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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.
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Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.
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