Quotes with lavish

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• The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

  ― Wyndham Lewis
  British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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• The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

  ― Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• Thus every Part was full of Vice,
  Yet the whole Mass a Paradise;
  Flatter'd in Peace, and fear'd in Wars,
  They were th' Esteem of Foreigners,
  And lavish of their Wealth and Lives,
  The Balance of all other Hives.

  Source: The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 155, p. 9

  ― Bernard Mandeville
  British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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• We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

  ― Sir Walter Raleigh
  British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• advertisement
• gratification
• expenditure
• application
• association
• grudgingly

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