“The place displayed luxury without comfort, ostentation without are. I hated it.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 44, “I Am Gretamara/On Chottem” (p. 398)
“The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.”
Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Book III, On Consumption, Chapter IV, p. 397
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