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> [Avoid the philosophy and excuse that yesterday's luxuries have become today's necessities. They aren't necessities unless we ourselves make them such. . . . It is essential for us to live within our means.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-s-monson/avoid-the-philosophy-and-excuse-that-yesterday-s-luxuries-have-become/)

[Thomas S. Monson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-s-monson/)

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> [We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the social scale... The end of it all is vexation of spirit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-weyl/we-are-developing-new-types-of-destitutes-the-automobileless-the/)

[Walter Weyl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-weyl/)

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