“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.”
Albert Einstein
“There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.”
Oscar Wilde
“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”
Charlie Chaplin
“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“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
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about”
Charles Kingsley
“Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.”
Tennessee Williams
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