luxuries

Meaning

of Luxury

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. Garrison Keillor

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. Frank Lloyd Wright

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. John Keats

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries. John Lothrop Motley

Seek not the luxuries of life lest you reap sorrow. Latin Proverb

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