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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.

The greatest luxury of riches is, that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins.

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.

Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.

War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.