The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker
I found many websites and collections of quotations attributing this to Parker, but I didn't find a more specific source. It's a great line, no matter who said it.
commonplace book. n. Formerly Book of common places (see commonplace n. 3). orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement.
OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 5 April 2015.
commonplace blog. n A commonplace book in a blog.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
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