Moreover, they mortify the body by early rising and by very plain living.

But this exalted scheme of high thinking and plain living soon became irksome.

This parson seems tougher-result of hard work and plain living, no doubt.

There was plain living then, but not a little high thinking.

Lastly, students, let plain living and high thinking be your motto.

For my own part, I have always preferred plain living; it is more healthy.

And is not plain living and high thinking better than the other way about?

Happiness was there and good society; few books, but fine culture; plain living and high thinking.

Such is the custom of the place, and it does not make plain living very easy.

Both these men sought in life only peace and plain living, yet were consumed with hate.

Farming, of course, means roughing it externally; but high thinking may go with plain living, nevertheless.

But the salons were far from being centers of " plain living and high thinking."

There is more chance for high thinking when one is big enough to have plain living.

No type of English student quite realises the noble ideal of plain living and high thinking nowadays.

All his life he was poor, and lived in an atmosphere of plain living and high thinking.

He gets drunk on just plain living.