“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Widely attributed to Dorothy Parker and to Ellen Parr, but the origin is unknown.
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“Every curiosity is in need of the curiosity of speech.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 335.
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