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"It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess."
"I lived in countries that had no democracy... so I don't find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom because you don't know what it is not to have freedom."
"Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams."
"Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?"
"Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle."
"Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular."
"Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them"
"The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need."
"He lives well who is well hidden."
"A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know."
"Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed."
"I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side."
"This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism."
"We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy"
"Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities."
"Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world."
"Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility."
"There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer."
"Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things"
"A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset."
