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“An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.”
—Alvan L. Barach (18951977)
“A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; and a partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.”
—David Hume (17111776)
“For a large class of casesthough not for allin which we employ the word meaning it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (18891951)
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