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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes: It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
         

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.


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This page presents the quote "It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.". Author of this quote is Robert Louis Stevenson. This quote is about one thing, conquer, curiosity,.