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He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support ra

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

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

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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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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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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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