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Curiosity...endows the people who have it with a generosity in arg

Curiosity…endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. – Alistair Cooke

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It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. – Alistair Cooke

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Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. – Clarence Day

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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. – Franklin P. Adams

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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. – James Stephens, The Crock of Gold

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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense. – Fawn M. Brodie

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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. – Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927)

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