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Emile, or On Education Quotes

Definitions could be good if words were not used to make them. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Emile, or On Education Quotes)

Definitions could be good if words were not used to make them.[Les définitions pourroient être bonnes si l’on n’employoit pas des mots pour les faire.]

Source:(Basic Books, ed. 1979), Book II, Page 108
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Emile, or On Education Quotes)
  • Book: Emile, or On Education
  • Writer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Genre: Philosophy
  • Published: 1762
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