prefer quotes

   But she, good sir, Did not prefer You, for that I was ranging; But for that she Found faith in me And she loved to be changing.

- Michael Drayton
  Poems Lyrick and Pastorall,'To His Rival'.

   It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

- David Hume
  A  Treatise of Human Nature, bk.2, pt.3, section 3.