Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Three Years in a Curatorship, By One Whom It Has Tried, 1886
“If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics”
it does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, so long as there is enough of them.
Three Years in a Curatorship, By One Whom It Has Tried, 1886
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