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Letter "L" » luxuries
«Never economize on luxuries»
«The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost / for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
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«Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.»
«We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
| Keywords:
abandon, American values, commitments, era, generations, honored, luxuries, necessities, proven, salt, tempted, this century, time-honored, transition, transitions, uneasy
«Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless host Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies, And other such ladylike luxuries»
«Merrily taking twopenny ale and cheese with a pocket knife; / But these were luxuries not for him who went for the Simple Life.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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ale, cheese, knife, luxuries, merrily, pocket, pocket knife, The Simple Life, twopenny
«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
«No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.»
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