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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Richard Whately
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Richard Whately
Age: 76 †
Born: 1787
Born: February 1
Died: 1863
Died: October 8
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The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.
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