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John Ruskin Quotes: Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.
         

Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.


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