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«Judicious omission is preferable to correct superfluity»
Author: Walter Kidde | Keywords: judicious, omission, omissions, preferable, superfluities, superfluity
«Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.»
Author: Michelangelo | About: Beauty | Keywords: purgation, superfluities, superfluity
«Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: filthiness, meekness, naughtiness, superfluities, superfluity, wherefore
«The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: exertions, extravagant, necessities, nonessential, passionate, priority, superfluities, superfluity, The Chief, Top Priority, traits, uniqueness, unlike
«Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: buy, buy at, buy in, buy into, superfluities, superfluity, superfluous, wealth
«Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: superfluities, superfluity, superfluous
«If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith (Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: expenses, superfluities, superfluity
«If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: elaborate, elaborated, His country, superfluities, superfluity, tombstone, tombstones
«Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Poverty | Keywords: necessaries, superfluities, superfluity
«Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: competencies, competency, hairs, superfluities, superfluity
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