• But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

    George Eliot: But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
    George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.295, Penguin