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• The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration

  Helmut Schmid

  Latter, Exaggeration, Extravagant

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• If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly before you what you require . . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and reasonable to make a garden . . . into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart, and nderstanding alike.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Wall, Eye

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• I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I've been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event.

  Jenson Button

  Black, Age, Events

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• Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

  Benjamin Rush

  House, Bipolar, Furniture

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• We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.

  Jonis Agee

  Running, Rivers, Water

  Jonis Agee (1991). “Sweet eyes”, Crown Pub

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• Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Looks, Lovers, Wedding Invitation

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1976). “Poems, 1906 to 1926”

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• The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Miracle, Opinion

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• We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.

  Masaru Ibuka

  Life, Believe, Simple

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• The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.

  Peter Lynch

  Office, Rewards, Management

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• One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

  Robert Silverberg

  Defining, Nonsensical, Decadence

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• Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

  Willa Cather

  Details, Too Much, Form

  Willa Cather, Marilee Lindemann (2008). “O Pioneers!”, p.173, Oxford University Press

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• Adultery is extravagance.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Infidelity, Adultery

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2014). “The Woman Warrior: Picador Classic”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Grandmother, Grandparent, Wish

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr

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• In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Change, Art, Frustration

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• Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all

  John Calvin

  Men, Grace, Special

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.235, Jazzybee Verlag

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• An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Sex, Wife, Use

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• My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.

  David Suzuki

  Hard Work, Mean, Dna

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• If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.

  Richard Rohr

  Love, Christian, Heart

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• My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.

  John Dryden

  Heart, Thinking, Mad

  1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 2.

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• If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Journey, Men, Looks

  1878 An Inland Voyage,'The Oise in Flood'.

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• The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.

  Adam Smith

  Powerful, Men, Errors

  Adam Smith, John Ramsay McCulloch (1828). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.115

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• A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system, and encourages propensities destructive to its happiness. It wars against industry, frugality, and economy, and it fosters the evil spirits of extravagance and speculation.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, War, Evil

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1853). “Speeches in the convention to amend the constitution of Massachusetts ; Speeches in Congress”, p.394

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• The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.

  Peter Robinson

  Age, Levels, Individual

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• I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

  Anais Nin

  Book, Giving, Letters

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• Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.

  Joseph Addison

  Imagination, Perfection, Support

  Joseph Addison (1975). “Essays in Criticism and Literary Theory”, Harlan Davidson

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