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We face the question whether a still higher “standard of living” is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. – Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949

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Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923

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It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation. – Samuel Johnson

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What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven. – Friedrich Holderlin

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Men can bear all things except good days. – Dutch Proverb [Quoted in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs comprisin

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