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- It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is… — Lord Byron
- Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just. — Horace Mann
- In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now… — Derek Bailey
- There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies… — Confucius
- Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate… — George Perkins Marsh
- If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,… — William Makepeace Thackeray
- Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and… — Barbara Ehrenreich
- Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready… — John Clare
- England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and… — Dan Smoot
- We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as… — Barbara Kingsolver
- We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and… — Bill McKibben