#preferable

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

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The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety. ↗

— Osbert Lancaster

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The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

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I don't think the Bonzo Dog could have evolved in America, nor could the old Nice: because of their musical discipline. This is one thing that British groups do have, a sort of discipline. Sometimes it can get a bit soulless, but on the whole I think it's preferable to the American alternative. ↗

— Jon Lord

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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due. ↗

— Charles Inglis

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The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water. ↗

— William Whipple

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