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• Morality is a private and costly luxury.

  Henry Adams

  Ethics, Morality, Privacy

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 22

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• My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Money, Years, Clothes

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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• I only like luxury fashion. You have to decide where you stand. I like well-made, authentic clothes, well-crafted tailoring. I also like the dream and fantasy of luxury, the exception and rarity of it. I have no interest at all in fast retail. It is ambiguous.

  Hedi Slimane

  Dream, Fashion, Clothes

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• The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.

  Thornton Wilder

  World, Expensive

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.

  Paul Gauguin

  Needs, Taste, Morrow

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All the delicacies of the table may be traced back to the shambles and the dunghill; all magnificence of building was hewn from the quarry, and all the pomp of ornament dug from among the damps and darkness of the mine.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Imagination, Office

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”

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• Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.

  Kanye West

  Oxford University, People, Stolen

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• In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Powerful, Rome

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured; the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule; and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capital of the East.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fashion, Art, Law

  Edward Gibbon (1860). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.174

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• The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation. There are few observers who possess a clear and comprehensive view of the revolutions of society, and who are capable of discovering the nice and secret springs of action which impel, in the same uniform direction, the bland and capricious passions of a multitude of individuals.

  Edward Gibbon

  Spring, Nice, Passion

  Edward Gibbon (1828). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.501

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• But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.

  David Ricardo

  Fall, Wages, Increase

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.146

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• Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

  Orson Welles

  Life, Lap, Knows

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• To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  William Ellery Channing, “My Symphony”

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• He tried the luxury of doing good.

  George Crabbe

  Doing Good

  'Tales of the Hall' (1819) 'Boys at School' l. 139

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• When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

  Agnetha Faltskog

  People, World, Fame

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

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• If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Faith, Strong

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

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• Style is luxury, and luxury is simply what makes you happy.

  Deborah Needleman

  Style, Make You Happy

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• The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

  Kevin McCloud

  Champion, Essentials, Sustainability

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• Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

  Virginia Woolf

  Isolation, Knows, Dies

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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• What you are doing I cannot do, what I'm doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God's love for us-To give us the opportunity to become holy through the works of love that we do because holiness is not the luxury of the few.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Greatness

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• For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

  Audre Lorde

  Existence, Poetry Is

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.37, Crossing Press

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• Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Assets, Built

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jul 27, 2012

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• Even in challenging economic times, making sure that study abroad is part of our college students' education is a vital investment. If we want a new generation of leaders and innovators who can be effective in an ever more globalized world, sending our students overseas is not a luxury. It's a necessity.

  Rick Steves

  College, Leader, Challenges

  "The World Is A Classroom" by Rick Steves, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2012.

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• There's just something about women and shoes, it's the luxury, it's the femininity and it's the attention to detail. You can put a lot of work into your dress but if you have the right shoe and bag then you feel good.

  Nicole Kidman

  Shoes, Feel Good, Dresses

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