"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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"I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers."
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"No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart; Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given."
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"Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced."
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"Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything."
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"The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust."
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"The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance."
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"An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife."
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"The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance."
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