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Luxury

«No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies»
«Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries»
«Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world»
Author: Cesare Pavese (Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator) | About: Luxury | Keywords: starting
«I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.»
«It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.»
«Morality is a private and costly luxury»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | About: Luxury, Morality | Keywords: costly
«I always thought I should be treated like a star.»
Author: Madonna (Actress, Singer) | About: Celebrity, Egotism, Fame, Luxury | Keywords: treated
«Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up»
Author: Orson Welles | About: Luxury | Keywords: lap, lap of luxury, luxury, stand up
«It is impossible to overdo luxury»
Author: French Proverb | About: Luxury | Keywords: luxury, overdo, overdoes, overdoing, overdone
«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»

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