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Letter "L" » Luxury
«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»
«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»
«I always thought I should be treated like a star.»
«Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up»
«It is impossible to overdo luxury»
«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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