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Tag Name "Luxuries" (93)

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A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.
James Herriot
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You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
Brad Garrett
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Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.
Samuel Johnson
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Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.
Thomas Jefferson
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
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My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young.
Kirsten Dunst
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Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.
Andrew Carnegie
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
Seneca the Younger
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in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.
Nora Ephron
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
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A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life.
Anthony Crosland
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The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven't.
William Arthur Ward
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Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.
Lukas Haas
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You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.
Luc de Clapiers
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Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.
Julius Caesar
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In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.
Orhan Pamuk
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... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.
Charles Dickens
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Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!
Robert A. Heinlein
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Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.
Tom Clancy
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There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.
Peter Singer
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Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.
Sholom Aleichem
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Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.
Mark Halperin
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If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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