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Extravagance
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“I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.”
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“Extravagance. The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things that you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.”
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“... we owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand ...”
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“Spending money is my only extravagance.”
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“A man who accustoms himself to buy superfluities, is often in want of necessaries.”
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“He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.”
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“... we both deplore extravagance. He deplores mine and I deplore his.”