Enough Rope/Inventory

by Dorothy Parker

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.

Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Three be the things I shall have till I die:Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

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