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“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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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 quotes (American short-story Writer, Editor, Poet and Critic, 1809-1849)
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“Man prefers to think what he prefers to be true”
Francis Bacon, Sr. quotes (English Lawyer and Philosopher. 1561-1626)
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“He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.”
Friedrich Nietzsche quotes (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)
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“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why He made so many of them.”
Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)
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“The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.”
John Mason Brown quotes (American literary Critic, 1900-1969)

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“The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful -because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.”
Aldous Huxley quotes (English Novelist and Critic, 1894-1963)
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“The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.”
George W. Bush quotes (American 43rd US President since 2001. b.1946)
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“The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.”
santiz Ludwig Feuerbach quotes

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