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Poll Results
| Option | Votes |
| “I would prefer to be left alone here,” said Bartleby, as if offended at being mobbed in his privacy. | 4 |
| “I would prefer not to,” he said, and gently disappeared behind the screen. | 4 |
| “No, I would prefer to be doing something else.” | 3 |
| “I would prefer not to.” | 2 |
| Upon asking him why he did not write, he said that he had decided upon doing no more writing. | 2 |
| “At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,” was his mildly cadaverous reply. | 2 |
| “I prefer not to,” he replied in a flute-like tone. | 2 |
| “I know where I am,” he replied, but would say nothing more, and so I left him. | 1 |
| “I would not like it at all; though, as I said before, I am not particular.” | 1 |
| “I would prefer not to take a clerkship,” he rejoined, as if to settle that little item at once. | 1 |
| “There is too much confinement about that. No, I would not like a clerkship; but I am not particular.” | 1 |
| “No; I would prefer not to make any change.” | 1 |
| “I would prefer not to quit you,” he replied, gently emphasizing the not. | 1 |
| “I have given up copying,” he answered, and slid aside. | 1 |
| “No more.” | 1 |
| “What is wanted?” | 1 |
| “At present I prefer to give no answer,” he said, and retired into his hermitage. | 1 |
| “I would prefer not to.” | 1 |
| “I would prefer not to,” said he. | 0 |
| “I know you,” he said, without looking round,—”and I want nothing to say to you.” | 0 |
| “Not at all. It does not strike me that there is any thing definite about that. I like to be stationary. But I am not p | 0 |
| “I would prefer not to.” | 0 |
| “I prefer not.” | 0 |
| “I prefer not to,” he respectfully and slowly said, and mildly disappeared. | 0 |
| “I would prefer not to.” | 0 |
| “Sitting upon the banister,” he mildly replied. | 0 |
| “I would prefer not to.” | 0 |
| “Not yet; I am occupied.” | 0 |
| “I would prefer not,” he replied, with his back still towards me. | 0 |
| “Do you not see the reason for yourself,” he indifferently replied. | 0 |
| “I would prefer not to.” | 0 |
| “I would prefer not to.” | 0 |
― coco vide (pomenitul), Monday, 23 March 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
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