![[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-goths-poverty-was-incurable-since-the-most-liberal-donatives-were-soon-di.jpg)
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hands down, even if in jail or in the grave.
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luxury community support
A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support. Wentworth Miller
luxury affluence hungry
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luxury soul stones
Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone. W. H. Auden
luxury democracy firsts
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luxury agents getting-high
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luxury people suffering
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luxury world bed
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luxury appreciate way
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The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.] Juvenal
poverty needs satisfied
[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace. Richard P. Feynman
poverty extravagance corruption
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poverty consumerism overconsumption
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poverty good-company company
Oh, poverty parts good company. Walter Scott
poverty inevitable dependence
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
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