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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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Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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