Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the l…

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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, p.103
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, p.103

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