Quote by Samuel Johnson
Round numbers are always false. - Samuel Johnson

Round numbers are always false. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Writing
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The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Observation
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Money
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Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. – Aaron Levenstein

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Statistics

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, Im not going to deny that you dont now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. – Ronald Reagan

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Statistics

I always find that statistics are hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable. – Mrs. Robert A. Taft

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Statistics

He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination. – Andrew Lang

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Statistics

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