#superfluity

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

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Inventory: "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

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A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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