"Luxury, so far as it reaches the people,……" — Samuel Johnson
"Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people; it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation was ever hurt by luxury; for, as I said before; it can reach but a very few."
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