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Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act I, sc. 4)
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To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his
snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that
has never a shirt on his back.
Author: Tom Brown
Source: Laconics
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Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon,
So costly were they; carpets, every stitch
Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish
You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 65)
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Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement (l. 43)
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O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 385)
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt:
It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Haunch of Venison
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Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my
friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us
the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source: Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (VI)
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Fell luxury! more perilous to youth
Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
Author: Hannah More
Source: Belshazzar
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Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are,
and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart,
enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.
Author: Hannah More
Source: Essays--Dissipation
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its
necessities.
Author: Hannah More
Source: Essays--Dissipation
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On his weary couch
Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,
Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam
That through his lattice peeped derisively.
Author: Robert Pollok
Source: Course of Time (bk. VII, l. 69)
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The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be
a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.
Author: Zac Posen
Source: at the London College of Fashion, in the International Fashion Press Bulletin
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Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey
in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
Author: Francis Quarles
Source: Emblems (bk. I, Hugo)
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What think you, if he were conveyed to bed,
Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers,
A most delicious banquet by his bed,
And brave attendants near him when he wakes,
Would not the beggar then forget himself?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Lord at induction, i)
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Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Lord at induction, i)
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Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?
Author: James Thomson (1)
Source: Seasons--Summer
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On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.
Author: Edward Young
Source: None
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The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Author: Charlie Chaplin
Source: None
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Author: Charles De Montesquieu
Source: None
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
Author: George Eliot
Source: None
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
Author: Cesare Pavese
Source: None
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The greatest luxury of riches is, that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
Author: Arthur Helps
Source: None
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
Author: John L. Motley
Source: None
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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
Author: Leontyne Price
Source: None
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
Author: George William Curtis
Source: None
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Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins.
Author: Edward Payson
Source: None
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Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.
Author: Henry Home
Source: None
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On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.
Author: Edward Young
Source: None
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Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Source: None
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War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind.
Author: John Crowne
Source: None
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Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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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 for both the body and the mind.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: None
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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