"but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion,……" — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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• It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are… — Henry Ward Beecher
• Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused… — Julia Cameron
• The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to… — John Allen Paulos
• A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists… — William Broad
• The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices,… — Unknown Author
• The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein
• [The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and… — Samuel Crompton
• Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now;… — John Fowles

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