#luxury

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

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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. ↗

— Coco Chanel

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The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. ↗

— Josiah Warren

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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. ↗

— Anthony Crosland

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I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are. ↗

— Ludacris

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Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless host Of syllabubs and jellies and mincepies, And other such ladylike luxuries. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time. ↗

— Bea Arthur

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. ↗

— Enid Bagnold

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Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify. ↗

— Evan Davis

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