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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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Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures. – Edmund Burke

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Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted. – Francis Beaumont

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We must not inquire too curiously into motives… They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. – George Eliot

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