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"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!"
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"Nell looks at the label and comes to.'Oh, I'd never wear it. I like to buy things on a cost-per-wear basis. This dress would probably work out at like...thirty pounds a wear. No. I couldn't.''You don't ever do something just because it makes you feel good?' The assistant shrugs. 'Mademoiselle, you need to spend more time in Paris."
"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."
"Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor."
"I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand."
"Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies."
"I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury."
"Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things."
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"In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures."
"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
"To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge."
"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it."
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