A Quote by Oscar Wilde
Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
Avoid the philosophy and excuse that yesterday's luxuries have become today's necessities. They aren't necessities unless we ourselves make them such. . . . It is essential for us to live within our means.
Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.
Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.
The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many.
When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.
In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.
Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.
Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.
This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy - a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.
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