Luxuries

Examples

• Our first plan had been to quit our wintry native latitude, and seek for our diminished numbers the luxuries and delights of a southern climate. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Beer and ale, for example, in Great Britain, and wine, even in the wine countries, I call luxuries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Don't go in for any of those luxuries. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• For money as money I care nothing, but I like luxuries which only money can buy, and therefore desire money. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It is otherwise with taxes upon what I call luxuries, even upon those of the poor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I would not now have exchanged Lowood with all its privations for Gateshead and its daily luxuries. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• If mere existence, and not happiness, had been the final end of our being, what need of the profuse luxuries which we enjoy? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I could not offer myself to any woman, even if she had no luxuries to renounce. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Consumable commodities, whether necessaries or luxuries, may be taxed in two different ways. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• No,' replied 'Bob Sawyer; 'can't afford expensive luxuries. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Consumable commodities are either necessaries or luxuries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• All other things I call luxuries, without meaning, by this appellation, to throw the smallest degree of reproach upon the temperate use of them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The child had many more luxuries and indulgences than had been awarded his father. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• All that I possessed of the luxuries of life came from him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• People in high life have all the luxuries to themselves--among others, the luxury of indulging their feelings. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Taxes upon luxuries have no tendency to raise the price of any other commodities, except that of the commodities taxed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Cold neck of mutton and a lettuce can ill compete with the luxuries of Mr Boffin's board. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Taxes upon luxuries are finally paid by the consumers of the commodities taxed, without any retribution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Thus, in addition to the many necessities they had brought, there were also many luxuries. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Is not the hope of being one day able to purchase and enjoy luxuries a great spur to labour and industry! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Some luxuries that one permits oneself. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They are not luxuries of education, but emphatic expressions of that which makes any education worth while. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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