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Though his works were universally admired by contemporaries, later commentators have remarked that their erudition was marred by speculative extravagances.
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The book is a satire on human society, and a warning about the dangers and extravagances of life in the city.
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Yet these exceptional extravagances came not of weakness but from excess of power.
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They show a great self-regard and self-assertion, sometimes running into extravagances which are impossible to credit.
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The two of them would spend the evening railing against other people's extravagances while they shared a single glass of wine.
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Her husbands failed investment had left her with little money; his extravagances had matched his income.
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He later developed a different style from his early feudal extravagances, of rural scenes intermingled with tragic incidents of town poverty and aristocratic splendor.
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It would therefore seem there was little official approval for such extravagances, which were rarely committed to writing.
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