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FORTUNE'S RULES TO LIVE BY: #23
Don't cut off a police car when making an illegal U-turn.
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Forty isn't old, if you're a tree.
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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.
-- Inventory
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Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
-- Dorothy Parker, "Not So Deep as a Well"
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Four fifths of the perjury in the world is expended on
tombstones, women and competitors.
-- Lord Thomas Dewar
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Four hours to bury the cat?
Yes, damn thing wouldn't keep still, kept mucking about, 'owling...
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Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue
ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature.
This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.
-- Robert Parker, quoted in "Murder Ink", ed. D. Wynn
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Fourth Law of Applied Terror:
The night before the English History mid-term, your Biology
instructor will assign 200 pages on planaria.
Corollary:
Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except
study for that instructor's course.
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Fourth Law of Revision:
It is usually impractical to worry beforehand about
interferences -- if you have none, someone will make one
for you.
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Frankly, Scarlett, I don't have a fix.
-- Rhett Buggler
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