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Richard Steele, fully Sir Richard Steele
Extinguish vanity in the mind, and you naturally retrench the little superfluities of garniture and equipage. The blossoms will fall of themselves when the root that nourishes them is destroyed.
Character | Little | Mind | Superfluities | Will |
Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
Money | Soul | Superfluities | Wealth |
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
Happy | Life | Life | Superfluities |
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required, and necessaries are not wanting.
Happy | Life | Life | Superfluities |
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
Our superfluities should give way to our brother's conveniences, and our conveniences, to our brother's necessities; yea, even our necessities should give way to their extremity for the supplying of them.
Théophile Gautier, fully Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier, aka Le Bon Theo
What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.
Beauty | Enough | Good | Idleness | Man | Nothing | Occupation | Opinion | People | Play | Principles | Rights | Service | Sound | Superfluities | Will | Woman | Talent | Beauty | Think |