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«No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies»
Author: Dean Acheson (Diplomat, Lawyer, Statesman) | About: Luxury, Paradise | Keywords: inoffensive, survived
«Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries»
Author: John Lothrop Motley (Diplomat, Historian) | About: Luxury | Keywords: dispense, dispensed, dispenses, dispense with, dispensing, luxuries, necessaries
«Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world»
Author: Cesare Pavese (Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator) | About: Luxury | Keywords: starting
«I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.»
Author: Coco Chanel (Fashion designer) | About: Language, Lies, Love, Luxury, Vulgarity, Words | Keywords: luxury, ornateness, richness, ugliest, vulgarity
«It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.»
Author: Garrison Keillor | About: Luxury | Keywords: air-conditioned, Air conditioning, barbarians, conditioning, luxuries, roman, Roman Empire, shut down, The Barbarians
«Morality is a private and costly luxury»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | About: Luxury, Morality | Keywords: costly
«I always thought I should be treated like a star.»
Author: Madonna (Actress, Singer) | About: Celebrity, Egotism, Fame, Luxury | Keywords: treated
«Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up»
Author: Orson Welles | About: Luxury | Keywords: lap, lap of luxury, luxury, stand up
«It is impossible to overdo luxury»
Author: French Proverb | About: Luxury | Keywords: luxury, overdo, overdoes, overdoing, overdone
«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»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | About: Luxury, Mankind | Keywords: comforts, elevation, hindrance, hindrances, indispensable, luxuries, positive, so-called, The So
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