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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
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