If so, what right have I to prefer self gratification to superior utility?

That a great majority of them prefer self-help, and many will take no other.

Photograph: Alamy I prefer self-catering to staying in hotels.

With their growth the working classes have come to prefer self-help to his honest regulation of their weal.

We would prefer self-catering.

However, fewer tourists are choosing the great outdoors and rented holiday homes are becoming the preferred self-catering option.

And Prudence, unwilling to give offense, and preferring self-sacrifice, endured his company until a gay young college lad slipped in ahead of him.