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luxury quotes

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“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography
“She confused in her desire the sensualities of luxury with the delights of the heart, elegance of manners with delicacy of sentiment.” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Let us have the luxury of silence.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves” Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism
“The trouble always is . . . not how to get enough caviar, but how to get enough toast with it.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can’t do without.” Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
“Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, the most helpless and diseased, which in others are luxuries merely, and in others still are entirely unknown.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“To mimic virtue is of every age; but the hypocrisy of luxury belongs more particularly to the ages of democracy.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“He writes because for him it is a luxury which becomes the more agreeable and more evident, the fewer there are who buy and read what he writes.” Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

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