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“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.”
Aristotle
“Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.”
Winston Churchill
“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”
Will Rogers
“I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison”
Mark Twain
“I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag”
Craig Washington
“I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its paws”
Charles Baudelaire
“A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds -- or tries to add -- the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.”
William Osler
“Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.”
Katherine Heigl
“In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self”
William Penn
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