Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was than simply to know it for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was than simply to know it for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
George Eliot

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A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
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Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was than simply to know it for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible. George Eliot

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was than simply to know it for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
George Eliot