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• INVENTORY Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
  Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt....
• Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
  Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt....
• Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
• Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
  -- Dorothy Parker, "Not So Deep as a Well...
• In youth, it was a way I had To do my best to please, And change, with every passing lad, To suit his theories.
  But now I know the things I know, And do the things I do...
• In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without a scandal.
  BAGEHOT...
• There are three things I have always loved and never understood -- art, music, and women.