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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

— Walter Bagehot

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

— Aldous Huxley

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

— Coco Chanel

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

— Orson Welles

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

— Benjamin Franklin

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

— Jil Sander

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

— Johan Huizinga

The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.

— Laurie Colwin

I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart.

— Marc Jacobs

✗Opposing Perspectives

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

— Renata Adler

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

— Edward Abbey