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Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious life a great part passes without study. An author partakes of the common condition of humanity; he is born and married like another man; he has hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments, griefs and joys, and friends and enemies, like a courtier or a statesman; nor can I conceive why his affairs shuld not excite curiosity as much as the whisper of a drawing-room, or the factions of a camp.

You know what a woman's curiosity is.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

People die when curiosity goes.

Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.

The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.

Curiosity is the main energy.

"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And I - well, I'm always furious.

The secret of happiness is curiosity

Be light-hearted, light-footed. Be of light step. Don't carry religion like a burden. And don't expect religion to be a teaching; it is not. It is certainly a discipline, but not a teaching at all. Teaching has to be imposed upon you from the outside and teaching can only reach to your mind, never to your heart, and never, never to the very center of your being. Teaching remains intellectual. It is an answer to human curiosity, and curiosity is not a true search.