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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

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Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

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People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

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A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds. ↗

— William Shatner

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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

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While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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