Quotes with prefer

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• Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

  Anthony Burgess
  British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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• Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.

  Raymond Chandler
  American writer (1888 - 1959)
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• It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

  George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

  Simone Weil
  French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unhappiness
• suggested
• imaginary
• domestic
• volatile
• paradise

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