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

John Lothrop Motley
Funny, Luxury, Giving
Quoted in Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1857 - 1858)
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.