| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 4990 |
| QUOTATION: | What I shall have to say here is neither difficult nor contentious; the only merit I should like to claim for it is that of being true, at least in parts. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | J.L. (John Langshaw) Austin (19111960), British philosopher. How to Do Things With Words, Lecture 1, Harvard University Press (1962). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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