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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of It.

 - Susan Anthony

Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.

 - David Hume

Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense.

 - David Hume