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• Tiberius preferred many to honours in his time, because they were famous whoremasters and sturdy drinkers.
• I prefer tea to coffee.
• "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
• one Master David Hume, who making some use of his purse, gave him Letters to his friends in Scotland to preferre him to King James.
• Such were the arguments which my will boldly preferred to my conscience, as coin which ought to be current, and which conscience, like a grumbling shopkeeper, was contented to accept.