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Luxury

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Luxury at IUM

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Luxury
Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?
James Thomson, The Seasons, Summer (1727), line 67.
Luxury
To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.
Tom Brown, Laconics.
Luxury
Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), VI.
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