Adam Smith Quotes, Luxury Quotes, People Quotes

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.

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Part of the true luxury of "earned laziness" are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It is a badge of distinction, an emblem of success, without having to say too much about it. It labels us, affords us kudos, and raises our profile in the "pecking order" of our fellow troglodytes. It says to others, "See, I've done so well that I can afford to do nothing at all whenever I so choose!

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He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

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When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

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Let us have the luxury of silence.

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The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

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As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

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We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

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If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

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I have a simple taste, only the best.

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.

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In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs.

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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

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I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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