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• In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Views, Small Villages

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• Although the traditional focus of Valentine's Day is on women and the gifts they desire, this survey found that not only do men like to get gifts for Valentine's Day, but they also like those gifts to be luxurious. Sixty-three percent of the people we surveyed agreed that this Valentine's Day, Johnnie Walker Blue Label is a great gift for the men in their lives.

  Christopher Parsons

  Valentine, Men, Blue

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• Our guests have an insatiable curiosity for up close and personal worldwide adventures - whether one is taking a segment of the World Cruise or the entire voyage. Traveling to different countries aboard the luxurious floating resort that is Crystal Serenity is just one part of their experience. Our guests relish the opportunity to venture beyond the port cities to experience the destinations' culture, wildlife and unique treasures.

  Bill Smith

  Country, Adventure, Unique

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• The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

  Anton Chekhov

  Spring, Mean, Men

  Letter to L.A. Avilova, April 29, 1892.

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• Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

  Rachael Taylor

  Thinking, Choices, Adults

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of women be able to dwell in luxurious seclusion from the trials of life, while another class performed their loathsome tasks? Surely His wisdom had not decreed that one set of women should live in degradation and in the end should perish that others might live in security, preserve their frappeed chastity, and in the end be saved.

  Madeleine Albright

  Men, Class, Desire

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• Sometimes we get wrong notions, we think we have to be in a luxurious house, in a large city, with a new car in order to be happy. Happiness isn't there. Happiness isn't in a new car, it isn't in a new and luxurious apartment. Happiness isn't in banks and stocks. Happiness is where you make it, it's up to you. It comes from within, it doesn't come from things.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Happiness, Thinking, Order

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Empty Life, Making Money, Ifs

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• Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.

  Arrian

  War, School, Men

  Arrian (1970). “The life of Alexander the Great”

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• I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Fashion, Blue, Leather Jackets

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• The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above all, it must be simple and little and black.

  Carolina Herrera

  Memories, Simple, Black

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• There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that.

  Harold Robbins

  Girl, Women, Light

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• Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Luxury, Politics

  Essays, Second Series "New England Reformers" (1844)

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• It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity.

  Francis Chan

  Selfish, Light, Land

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.44, David C Cook

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• When it is moving on luxurious wings, The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings.

  John Keats

  Moving, Wings, Soul

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Justice, Want, Matter

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.224, Beacon Press

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• I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the American shoe industry and marketing strategies. I caught the secrets of American casual wear, that is elegant and wearable, retro and modern, and mixed it with an Italian touch, luxurious and handmade.

  Diego Della Valle

  Dream, Italian, Shoes

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• The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Beautiful, Simple, Bed

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• It's not what you spend but how you wear it that counts. The key is often to dress up inexpensive basics with accessories. Something like a beautiful designer bag or belt can make everything else look richer and more luxurious.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Beautiful, Keys, Dresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family.

  Steven Morrissey

  Important, British Monarchy, Useless

  "Morrissey Slams Kate Middleton, Prince Harry & ‘Useless’ Royal Family" by Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2012.

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• I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.

  Marc Jacobs

  Comforting, Everyday, World

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• The peace of mind, is very essential for our health. So in that level, I think scientific finding, immense benefit to get our wellness and eventually conviction, peace of mind is not just a luxurious item, but peace of mind is actually very important for our survival, for our healthy survival.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Healthy, Survival

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• There are two Chicagos, as you know. There's one Chicago that's incredible, luxurious and all - and safe. There's another Chicago that's worse than almost any of the places in the Middle East that we talk, and that you talk about, every night on the newscasts.

  Donald Trump

  Night, Two, Middle East

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Sitting Still, Age

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• Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of the Mall - govern our lives, we are in escalating danger of destroying the commonwealth of all sentient beings - bugs and bees and buntings - on which we depend for a luxurious life on planet earth.

  Sam Keen

  People, Bunting, Degrees

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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