Gerald May
Psychiatrist, Author
"I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear."
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Extravagance
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Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Where there is no love there is no understanding."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l."
Tanith Lee
Author
"Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable."
Chris Martin
Musician
"The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same."
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"in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace."
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"But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility, and aim only at being first. Therefore they shall surely perish."
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"The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance."
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"Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich."
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"Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance."
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"Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar."
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"Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought."
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"He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption."
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"Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare."
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"Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity."
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"An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity."
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"I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering."
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"The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance."
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"Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications."
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"Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives."
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"There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine."
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"Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls."
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"Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance."
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"It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world."
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"Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly."
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