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capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the country, and therefore the excuse often made for extravagance, that it is good for trade, is based upon false notions respecting capital.

Millicent Fawcett
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Where there is no love there is no understanding. by Oscar Wilde

Where there is no love there is no understanding.

Oscar Wilde
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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

Oscar Wilde
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravaganc... by Oscar Wilde

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

Oscar Wilde
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of t... by Oscar Wilde

Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

Oscar Wilde
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The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.

Peter Lynch
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The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.

Peter Robinson
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Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

Plutarch
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

Rachel Nichols
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Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced.

Rainer Maria Rilke
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That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.

Richard Whately
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The things we do at Christmas are touched with a certain extravagance, as beautiful, in some of its aspects, as the extravagance of nature in June.

Robert Collyer
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There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nons... by Robert Silverberg

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

Robert Silverberg
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own by Sallust

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

Sallust
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Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

Samuel Johnson
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He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

Samuel Johnson
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Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

Samuel Johnson
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Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, int... by Tanith Lee

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

Tanith Lee
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We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

Thomas Paine
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