"Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury……" — Oscar Wilde

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• But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain… — Laozi
• We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. — Lady Randolph Churchill
• Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their… — Samuel Johnson
• Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess. — Umar
• The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper… — Grover Cleveland
• The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. — Oscar Wilde
• No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does… — Pericles
• My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It… — Ina Garten
• The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern… — Elihu Palmer
• The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters,… — Friedrich Schiller

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