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Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Luxurious, Luxury

He tried the luxury of doing good.Crabbe.

It is a hard matter to save that city from ruin where a fish was sold for more than an ox.Cato reproving luxury.

Luxury destroys mankind,
At once corrupts the body and the mind.Crown.

Luxury is the bane of morality and virtue.Swiss.

Luxury! thou curst by Heaven’s decree.Goldsmith.

The luxurious want many things, the covetous all things.

The luxury of the rich gives bread to the poor.French.