Sentence examples for superfluous wealth from inspiring English sources

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In his famous novel "Walden, Henry Davidd Thoreau states, "Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

It was King's belief that "God never intended for some of his children to live in inordinate superfluous wealth while others live in abject, deadening poverty".

I could not help but wonder, by the end, whether I was not witnessing some unsavory part of the American character that persists to this day: is it not the same greed that caused the senseless mass killing of animals for the sake of the money their dead bodies represent, and the senseless pursuit of superfluous wealth in the financial world today?

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I think there have been too many 800-pagers, particularly about 19th- and 20th-century figures, where the wealth of surviving documentation makes them unwieldy with superfluous knowledge.

Influenced by Western ideology, he wrote Kagen ("Source of Value"), discussing wealth and poverty, and his key philosophical works, Gengo ("Abstruse Language"), Zeigo ("Superfluous Language"), and Kango ("High-flown Language"), in which he appealed to reason and nature, rather than written doctrine or tradition, as the sources of knowledge.

He was not alone among the early Fathers in speaking out against the abuse of wealth, teaching that personal property is not strictly private but a trust, and declaring that what was superfluous to one's reasonable needs ought to be given away.

Superfluous, indeed.

Superfluous man.

You eliminate the superfluous.

That would be superfluous.

The iPad was superfluous.

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