"Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary."
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"The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go."
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"Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless."
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"Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity"
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"Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers."
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"One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing, trifles. Needs increase because one thing calls for another. The result is uncontrollable dissatisfaction. Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up."
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"He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments."
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"The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world."
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"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!"
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"Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury."
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"There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few."
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"The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster."
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"And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury."
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"If you want to be rich, don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses."
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"Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment."
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"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend."
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"The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It's a luxury. What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job."
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"I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?"
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"It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness."
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"I’ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It’s like my last luxury."
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