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• If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable. ADE
• If it were not for the presents, an elopment would be preferable.
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• This is hopeless, fighting would be preferable.
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• Delay is preferable to error. -- Thomas Jefferso
• All would be well if there were no buts.
• A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility -- Aristotle
• Almost any misfortune is preferable to a worse one.