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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. – Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891

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