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«I was extravagant in the matter of cameras ? anything photographic ? I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest ? or without.»

«People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?»

«Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.»

«His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.»

«A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich»

«In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.»

«O children of Adam! attend to your embellishments at every time of prayer, and eat and drink and be not extravagant; surely He does not love the extravagant. (The Elevated Places 7.31)»

«Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age»

«Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.»

«Man is an individual animal with narrow faculties, but infinite desires, which he is anxious to concentrate in some one object within the grasp of his imagination, and where, if he cannot be all that he wishes himself, he may at least contemplate his own pride, vanity, and passions, displayed in their most extravagant dimensions in a being no bigger and no better than himself.»