It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
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It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
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