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Robert Louis Stevenson

"It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it."

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"It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it."

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"Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour."

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"I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery."

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"Curious make you clever, that most people aren't curious it's their problem."

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"Women never stalk men, they just research them intensely."

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"The world is endlessly fascinating to those who take the time to look."

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"You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information."

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"Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table looked at him.'What the hell, Ronan?' said Adam.'It's hard to imagine," Gansey mused, 'how this evidently successful classical education never seems to make it into your school papers.''They never ask the right questions,' Ronan replied."

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Amber Hurdle

"So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Cats like keyboards, people like to explore and to discover new mysteries."

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"We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land."

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"A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation."
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"It is a phrase that may well perplex a poor modern, girt about on every side by clocks and chimes...For we are all so busy, and have so many far-off projects to realise, and castles in the fire to turn into solid habitable mansions on a gravel soil, that we can find no time for pleasure trips into the Land of Thought and among the Hills of Vanity."
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