#extravagant

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. ↗

— Charles Ives

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A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. ↗

— William Shenstone

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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? ↗

— William Law

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All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. ↗

— Andrew Motion

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I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man. ↗

— Brad Renfro

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I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

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I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

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As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws. ↗

— David Brainerd

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