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I adore extravagance but I abhor waste. by Aaron Copland

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.

Aaron Copland
adore waste extravagance

It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.

Abraham Lincoln
extravagance example people
He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot... by Alec-Tweedie

He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

Alec-Tweedie
extravagance doe want
The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel li... by Alfred Bester

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.

Alfred Bester
fool extravagance enjoy

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

Alfred North Whitehead
extravagance safe men
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives. by Alfred North Whitehead

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

Alfred North Whitehead
harbour extravagance certain

I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

Anais Nin
extravagance giving book
If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the fe... by Aristippus

If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.

Aristippus
festivals faults extravagance
He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year,... by Benjamin Franklin

He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.

Benjamin Franklin
extravagance years

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

Benjamin Rush
bipolar extravagance house
An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessi... by Bernard Williams

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

Bernard Williams
extravagance spirit thinking

Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to conceal the emptiness with more extravagance, only to find the thrills becoming less satisfying and more fleeting. Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. However you try to disguise it, you end up feeding without being nourished.

Brandon Mull
extravagance real trying
Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance. by C. S. Lewis

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

C. S. Lewis
bills extravagance book

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

Calvin Coolidge
toil extravagance humanity
Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that. by Carine Roitfeld

Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.

Carine Roitfeld
extravagance fashion needs
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. by Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Charles Caleb Colton
extravagance greed soul
The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the sa... by Chris Martin

The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.

Chris Martin
extravagant extravagance

in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.

Cormac McCarthy
extravagance cases dream
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rus... by Demosthenes

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

Demosthenes
rushing extravagance causes

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

Edwin Percy Whipple
poverty extravagance men
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