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  • Most common marriage refusal line: "I think marriage would ruin our friendship."
  • Someone asked Albert Einstein what was the most difficult thing of all to understand, and he said income tax.
  • The most difficult years, according to T.S. Eliot, are between 50 and 70. "You are always asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
  • The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." — Theodore M. Hesburgh of Notre Dame
  • Some claim that Isaac Newton was the most intelligent man in history. He didn't talk much. When he was in Parliament, the only thing he ever said was: "Will somebody open the window, please?"
  • The thing most likely to sour a romance? According to Friedrich Nietzsche: "It is not lack of love but lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
  • The title of Edward Gibbon's "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," just the title, is the most quoted line Edward Gibbon ever wrote. His second most quoted line is: "I was never less alone than when by myself."
  • "The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted." — Mother Teresa
  • Most quoted definition of a committee: "A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary." — Anonymous

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