Words are clumsy tools. And it is very easy to cut one's fingers with them, and they need the closest attention in handling; but they are the only tools we have, and the imagination itself cannot work without them * (Frankfurter 1947: 546) as quoted in Harris and Hutton, Definition in Theory and Practice 2007: 135

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