#lux

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare. ↗

— James Forrestal

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I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them. ↗

— Glenn Tipton

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through. ↗

— James Wolcott

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I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses. ↗

— Tiger Woods

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