#extravagance

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft. ↗

— Pericles

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The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

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Please sell $10,000 worth of stock — we have decided to lead a mad and extravagant life. ↗

— Harry Crosby

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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. ↗

— Bern Williams

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A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

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My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty. ↗

— Ellen Wilkinson

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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. ↗

— Jennie Churchill

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