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E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly Quotes: It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
         

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.


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It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
         



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