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Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

Samuel Johnson

Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances. It is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

Samuel Johnson

Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

Oscar Wilde

I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance.

Oscar II of Sweden

It is a gorgeous, great rose-pink cavern of highly unconventional Gothic, a marvelous enclosure of space, a dated and unforgettable masterpiece of breathtaking audacity and extravagance.

Unknown

An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.

Franklin P. Jones

Extravagance is its own destroyer.

Zeno

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