“I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.”
Source: His Majesty's Dragon
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Contentment, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I would much rather have a living husband with no job and no gold than a dead one.”
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The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)

“Sorry. I'd much rather be gay than sleep with you just to prove I wasn't.”
The Advocate, April 2005
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 501.
Context: If you are seeking the comforts of religion rather than the glory of our Lord, you are on the wrong track. The Comforter meets us unsought in the path of duty. There is something in religion, when rightly comprehended, that is masculine and grand. It removes those little desires which are the constant hectic of a fool.

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 442.