People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.
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Leo Rosten was a 20th-century American jewish american humorist. Leo Calvin Rosten was an American writer and humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism, and Yiddish lexicography. Read more on Wikipedia →

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