Fractured indigo tabletop mirror showing several stylized anonymous faces with broken glass at its base

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles · 1891

Thomas Hardy

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says some cannot!

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The damaged question points toward a general claim about what women say. Its missing wording leaves the complete proposition unknown, so no rule about women is supplied.

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