#prefers

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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

— John Mason Brown

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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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Love prefers twilight to daylight. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient. ↗

— Horace

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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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Nature conserves, prefers novelty. ↗

— Terence McKenna

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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