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As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those…
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where…
My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care…
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security.
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity…
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted…
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor…
As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and…
For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should…
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and…

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A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of… — Mercy Otis Warren
If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that… — Unknown Author
I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel. — John Knox
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. — William Shakespeare
A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material,… — Unknown Author
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. — Margaret Cavendish
I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the… — Freeman Tilden
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian… — Max Nordau
If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his… — Oscar Wilde
I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity. — Theophile Gautier
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. — Rollo May

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