“There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter; but this is the sort of thing (as the proverb indicates) we overlook: there are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.”

—  J. L. Austin, book How to Do Things with Words

John Langshaw Austin, Marina Sbisà (1975) How to Do Things with Words. p. 48.

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