Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure. …

Samuel Johnson
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Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ..., p.54
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