Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 106
“It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth.”
Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 102
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