#prefers

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. ↗

— John Mason Brown

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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball. ↗

— Katarina Witt

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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

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The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. ↗

— Lord Acton

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Love prefers twilight to daylight. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#love #prefers #twilight

Nature conserves, prefers novelty. ↗

— Terence McKenna

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