standard of comfort

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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

Everyone who knows Europe at all is aware of the high standard of comfort in all the small countries—Scandinavia, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland.

From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Angell, Norman

The decline of the birth-rate, they say, "is associated with a general raising of the standard of comfort, and is an expression of the determination of the people to secure this greater comfort."

From The Task of Social Hygiene by Ellis, Havelock