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When a person is curious about something, it means he is interested in it and wishes to know more about it. There is 1 with curiosity in itself. Whether it is good or bad 2 on what people are curious about.
Curiosity is 3 silly or wrong. Some persons with nothing to do are 4 of curiosity about what their neighbours are doing. They are 5 to know what they are eating or drinking, what they are bringing or taking home or 6 they have come home so early or late. To be interested in these things is 7 because they are not at all important. It is none of their 8 to know what neighbours do or are doing. Such curiosity is 9 not only foolish but also harmful. For most probably, it 10 to small talk which often brings 11 , shame or disrespect to others, and thus hurt their feelings.
On the other 12 , there is a noble curiosity-the curiosity of the wise, who 13 at all the great things and try to find out all they 14 about them. Columbus could 15 have found America if he had not been 16 . James Watt would have not made the steam engine 17 his curiosity about the raising of the kettle lid. All the great discoveries and inventions in human history have been made 18 a result of curiosity. 19 the curiosity is never about unimportant things, which have 20 or nothing to do with the happiness of the public.
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