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Quote by Theodor Billroth
Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or

Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. – Theodor Billroth

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There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. – Mark Twain

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After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, “Lies – damned lies – and statistics,” still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of. – Leonard Courtney, speech, August 1895, New York, "To My Fellow-Disciples at

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Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. – William W. Watt

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