standard of comfort
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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
It might, therefore, appear that as one industry after another fell under machine-production, the tendency of machine-development must necessarily make for a general elevation of the standard of comfort among the working classes.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)
I once made a German exceedingly angry by saying that the standard of comfort was higher in England than in Germany.
From Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.
Free maintenance for children should be accepted by trade unionists as tending to raise the standard of comfort.
From British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by Barker, J. Ellis
Next to a necessary in this respect will come what is termed a "conventional necessary," something which by custom has been firmly implanted as an integral portion of the standard of comfort.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)
