...not pay for at all. And yet nothing is more vitally right than the attitude of the French gentleman who said: "Give me the luxuries of life, and I will do without the necessaries." For example, the British Library of Political Science is prodigiously more important...

...branches where honors can be won, or as the only luxuries of a liberal education. Our late Mr. Motley once said, "Give me the luxuries of life and I will do without the necessaries ; " but the wit of the epigram does not conceal its mischievous philosophy, nor excuse...

...their position of greatest intensity is a step in subjectivity which I cannot consent to take with him. The man who said ' Give me the luxuries •* of life and I will do without the necessaries ' was not speaking seriously. The true economic measure of utility to the individual...

...conspicuous by its absence. For I am luxurious to a degree, and so fond of beauty and grace that I feel with the man who said, " Give me the luxuries of life and I will do without the necessities." This explanation is due to any man, woman, or child who has ever lived in a New York...