#comforts

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

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Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

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They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts. ↗

— Matthew Henry

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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful. ↗

— Beth Anderson

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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

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It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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