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Prohibitions without Reasons.—A prohibition, the reason of which we do not understand or admit, is almost a command, not only for the stiff-necked but for the thirster after knowledge.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

What made him so acrimonious does not appear: he was by nature no thirster for blood.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

"What are we doin' here, anyway?" roared some thirster for information.

From The Clarion by Stevens, William Dodge

Having then, in a few well-chosen phrases, discussed one type of camouflage, I would pass on and lead the thirster for information still farther into the by-paths of knowledge.

From No Man's Land by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)

That thirster, though he lived aft, was compelled to do the work of a common sailor.

From A Son Of The Sun by London, Jack