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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.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about wealth, danger, success, artists

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about good, good luck, contentment, money

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Quote by Cesare Pavese about money, being, world

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Quote by Oscar Wilde about feelings, emotions

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Quote by Edward Abbey about human imperfections, spirit

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about joy, civilization, air

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about morality

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

Quote by Orson Scott about being

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about enemies

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

Quote by Joe Pantoliano about happiness, work

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Quote by Henry Ward Beecher about books, life

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

Quote by Thomas Moore about tears, happiness