Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense.
—David Hume
Showing posts with label luxury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label luxury. Show all posts
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Wednesday, January 04, 2017
Monday, September 28, 2015
Post #1911
Fell luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksands, poverty or chains.
—Hannah More
—Hannah More
Monday, June 08, 2015
Post #1831
Garrick showed Dr. Johnson his fine house, gardens, statues, pictures, etc., at Hampton Court. "Ah! David, David," said the doctor, "these are the things which make a deathbed terrible.”
―John Bate
―John Bate
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Post #1664
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
—Henry David Thoreau
Saturday, March 03, 2012
Post #880
The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.
—Benjamin Franklin
—Benjamin Franklin
Thursday, April 08, 2010
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
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