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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 40828 |
| QUOTATION: | Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877), U.S. historian. Quoted in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, ch. 6, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1858). |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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