"O curiosity, thou mortal bane!
Spite of thy charms, thou causest often pain
And sore regret, of which we daily find
A thousand instances attend mankind:
For thou-O may it not displease the fair-
A fleeting pleasure art, but lasting care.
And always proves, alas! too dear the prize,
Which, in the moment of possession, dies."
- The Moral from Bluebeard by Charles Perrault
(Charles Perrault's Classic Fairy Tales)
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