Inquisitive people are merely funnels of conversation. They do not take anything for their own use, but merely to pass it on to others.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Richard Steele, (Mar 12 1672-1729), English essayist, dramatist; He started the Tatler, the first periodical which became so characteristic a literary feature of that age.