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Luxury Quotes - Page 19

No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.

Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.405, BoD – Books on Demand

Poetry is not a luxury.

Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death”, p.88

It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.

Adam Smith, John Ramsay McCulloch (1828). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.473

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Fried (1965). “A Day of Dedication”, New York : Macmillan [1965]

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

"'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.349

The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.

William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.52, Courier Corporation