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• I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
  -- Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1936, announcing his abdication of the British throne in order to marry the American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson....
• Having enemies is a heavy responsibility. My burden is sufficient, I no longer can carry that of others as well.
  -- E.M. Ciora...
• If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
• They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire i, Line 147...
• When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone.
  And I have found it wise never to recommend a restaurant either....
• Ah, sweet pity: where would my love life have been without it? -- Homer Simpson I Love Lisa
• Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life have been without it? -- Homer, "I Love Lisa
• Do you realise the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
• My early and invincible love of reading, which I would not exchange for the treasures of India.
  . . -- Edward Gibbo...