People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity ca… - Leo Rosten

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People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

Leo Rosten

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About Leo Rosten

Leo Calvin Rosten (11 April 1908 – 19 February 1997) was an American teacher, academic and humorist best remembered for his stories about the night-school "prodigy" Hyman Kaplan and for The Joys of Yiddish (1968).

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Jews are not proselytizers.*Rabbis are required to make three separate efforts to discourage a would-be convert.

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In the Catskills, it is claimed that an ingenious gentleman crossbred a Guernsey with a Holstein — to get a Goldstein.

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle. - Leo Rosten

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