“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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English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898

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