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#extravagance

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A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right. ↗


— Audrey Meadows


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My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty. ↗


— Ellen Wilkinson


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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. ↗


— Virginia Woolf


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Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers. ↗


— Howard Hodgkin


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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. ↗


— Jennie Churchill


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My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. ↗


— Ina Garten


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I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural. ↗


— Christian Louboutin


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They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail. ↗


— Imelda Marcos


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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft. ↗


— Pericles


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The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it. ↗


— Norman Rockwell


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