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Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!
Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!
Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up
Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up
Fell luxury! more perilous to youth
Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
Fell luxury! more perilous to youth
Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.
Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.
Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind.
War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
On his weary couch
Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,
Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive read more
On his weary couch
Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,
Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam
That through his lattice peeped derisively.
