QuoteQuest“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Eleanor Roosevelt
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- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
From article "In Defense of Curiosity" appearing in The Saturday Evening Post 208 (August 24, 1935); 8-9, 64-66.
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Roosevelt, Eleanor. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Eleanor Roosevelt. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt
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