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
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