Edmund Burke
A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
Edmund Burke
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A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined. - Edmund Burke quote

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

Anglo-Irish statesman and political theorist

January 12th, 1729 - July 9th, 1797