Afford

(verb) To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious;—with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough. Example: "I think we can afford the extra hour it will take. We can only afford to buy a small car at the moment."

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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford."

— James Baldwin

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."

— Henry David Thoreau

"If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life."

— Walt Disney

"If you really want something , you can have it if you're willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy."

— Vince Lombardi

"Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore."

— James Baldwin

"It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it."

— Thomas Sowell

"Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords."

— Theodore Roosevelt

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