Extravagance is the father of meanness, and Sheridan was often mean in the readiness with which he accepted offers, and the anxiety with which he implored assistance.

My extravagance is a question of nearly twenty years ago.

The extravagances of the son became almost the delight of the father, when the father had become certain of the son's reform.

Maggie saw that her mother was depressed, and she thought that Edward's extravagance must be the occasion.

An extravagance of this kind was only the outburst of generous friendship.

Accordingly, Avarice is the vice of age, just as extravagance is the vice of youth.

Extravagance is a serious foe to efficient organisation, because where it prevails there is a temptation to try imperfectly thought-out experiments, in the belief that, if they fail, there will still be plenty of money to permit others to be tried.

" Grace was surprised her father did not see that his statement had a humorous touch, since improvident extravagance was his rule; but it was obvious that he did not.

Extravagance and pleasure were a passion with him.

In these earlier poems, extravagance is sufficiently noticeableyet never the sickly eccentricities of diseased weakness, but the exuberant overflowings of a young Titan's strength.

Extravagance is moderation looking upon such a picture.

Thoughtless extravagance is the destruction of generosity and even of justice.

" "Nay, your enemies would say that your extravagance is your sole merit, and that therein you are better than I," rejoined Sir Giles, with a sardonic laugh.

" "Wealth is not among the number of good things; extravagance is among the number of evils, sober-mindedness of good things.

Well he knew that Remedios haggled for everything down to the last céntimo, and that her one extravagance was an occasional new shawl for the local Virgin, and an annual fiesta for the Saint with a large orchestra and hundreds of candles!

A civilized gentleman differs from a savage, principally in the multiplicity of his wants; and Mandeville, in his fable of the bees, has proved to demonstration that extravagance is the mother of commerce.

Their extravagance was not the extravagance of satire, but simply the extravagance of vitality; and here lies the whole key of the place of ugliness in aesthetics.