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-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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- Topic: Luxury
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
-- George William Curtis - Topic: Luxury
Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.
-- Joseph Addison - Topic: Luxury
Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Topic: Luxury
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
-- Cesare Pavese - Topic: Luxury
Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?
-- James Thomson - Topic: Luxury
Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
-- Hannah More - Topic: Luxury
Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes - Topic: Luxury
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
-- John L Motley - Topic: Luxury
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
-- Hannah More - Topic: Luxury
Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
-- William Shakespeare - Topic: Luxury
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.
-- Hannah More - Topic: Luxury
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
-- Francis Quarles - Topic: Luxury
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.
-- Edward Payson - Topic: Luxury
Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.
-- Henry Home - Topic: Luxury
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
-- Charles De Montesquieu - Topic: Luxury
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.
-- Henry David Thoreau - Topic: Luxury
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.
-- Henry David Thoreau - Topic: Luxury
O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree.
-- Oliver Goldsmith - Topic: Luxury
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.
-- Robert Pollok - Topic: Luxury
On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.
-- Edward Young