Luxury

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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle
There is a luxury in self-dispraise;
And inward self-disparagement affords
To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

The Excursion
And learn the luxury of doing good.

The Traveller
O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!

The Deserted Village
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