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Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling. – Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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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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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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Where the apple reddens never pry — lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. – Robert Browning

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