standard of comfort

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A high standard of comfort and efficient work is the cheapest way of living in the long run.

From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various

Her standard of comfort at a hotel was so impossible that she became an object of terror and dislike to the waiters and chambermaids.

From The Third Miss Symons by Mayor, F. M. (Flora Macdonald)

It is often wise and necessary to disregard the social standard of comfort, because it imposes foolish expenses and contemptible ostentation, but it is very difficult to disregard the social standard of comfort.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

But even making these admissions, his words seem to be evidence of a standard of comfort higher in some respects than could be attained by the corresponding classes to-day.

From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various

That the poor could thus become fastidious was a good sign of the rising standard of comfort.

From Mediaeval Socialism by Jarrett, Bede