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Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another. – La Rochefoucauld
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man I want a man without money rather than money without a man. – Themistocles
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man. – Themistocles, from Plutarch, Lives
It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents. – General Omar Nelson Bradley
Men say that everyone is naturally a lover of himself, and that it is right that it should be so. This is a mistake; for in fact the cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved, so that he passes a wrong judgment upon what is just, good, and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honour what belongs to himself, in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself or by another. – Plato
The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain. . . – Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable. – William Hazlitt

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