People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.
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Original Citation
Voltaire [published anonymously]. "Luxe [Luxury]." Dictionnaire Philosophique Portatif. Geneva: Gabriel Grasset, 1764.
Current Citation
Voltaire. "Luxury." Philosophical Dictionary, translated by Theodore Besterman. Penguin Classics, 1984.