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profligate of you,” I murmur, bewildered by the choice,
E L James • Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, Book 1)
profligacies
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
We shine with brightness. And I who am here dissembled Proffer my deeds to oblivion, and my love To the posterity of the desert and the fruit of the gourd.
T.S. Eliot • The Essential T.S. Eliot
sybaritic
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
I have a tremendous love of frugality, I must admit. I don’t like a couch decked out ostentatiously; or clothes brought out from a chest or given a sheen by the forceful pressure of weights and a thousand mangles, but homely and inexpensive, and not hoarded to be donned with fuss and bother. I like food which is not prepared and watched over by the
... See moreSeneca • On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas)
It is our indulgences that make us go into a frenzy, becoming enraged at anything that doesn’t suit our whim.