Ellen Parr

Dates unknown · credited in Reader’s Digest, December 1980

Almost nothing is known about Ellen Parr. Quote Investigator, which traced this saying through eight decades of print, states plainly that it “has not located any biographical details for Parr.” She survives in the record as a name at the end of one sentence in a December 1980 magazine column — and as the person that sentence was subsequently taken from.

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“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity”

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