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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


#commercialism #could #extravagance #fitted #illness

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


#cleanliness #endeavour #extravagance #genius #hard

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


#being #collect #collecting #eat #extravagance

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


Jennie Churchill


#extravagance #go #hand #owe #seldom

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.


Ina Garten


#extravagance #first #first thing #garden #gives

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.


Christian Louboutin


#complete #example #extravagance #far #for example

They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.


Imelda Marcos


#extravagance #listed #mean #name #ostentatious

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


#does #extravagance #lead #love #make

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


#american #believed #big #country #crash

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


Harry Crosby


#humour #mad #money #stocks #life






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