Quotes about curio

A collection of quotes on the topic of curio.

Quotes about curio

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“To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.”

Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (2007), p. 233

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“And to emphasize the bad name Caesar had won alike for unnatural and natural vice, I may here record that the Elder Curio referred to him in a speech as: "Every woman's man and every man's woman."”
At ne cui dubium omnino sit et impudicitiae et adulteriorum flagrasse infamia, Curio pater quadam eum oratione omnium mulierum virum et omnium virorum mulierem appellat.

Source: The Twelve Caesars, Julius Caesar, Ch. 52