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That low vice, curiosity!

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The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!

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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

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The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.

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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I can change.

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The enquiring spirit will not be controll’d, We would make certain all, and all behold.

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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity

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The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.

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The knowledge that women lack stimulates their imagination; the knowledge that men possess blunts theirs.

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The over curious are not over wise.

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The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake.

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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.

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The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

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The speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

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There are different kinds of curiosity: one comes from self-interest, which makes us want to know everything that may be profitable to us; another from pride, which comes from a desire to know what others are ignorant of.

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There are two sorts of curiosity — the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

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There is philosophy in the remark that every man has in his own life follies enough, in the performance of his duty deficiencies enough, in his own mind trouble enough, without being curious after the affairs of others.

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There was a curiosity as to what the common denominators in all the stories are.


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