Written by London Swaminathan

Date: 6 October 2016

Time uploaded in London: 18-42

Post No.3224

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In the course of a Parliamentary debate, an opponent of Disraeli government was supporting his arguments and charges with a ponderous and bewildering barrage of statistics. Instead of scurrying around for similar ammunition to refuse these arguments, Disraeli rose and commented dryly,

Gentlemen, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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Louis Sterne of London tells this story of his father Simon Sterne who, while dining with Chauncey Depew and Edward Atkinson, was appealed to by the latter:

Now, Sterne, you can bear me out in this; you know

(Quoting certain statistics)

And that figures never lie.

Never, said Mr Sterne gravely, except when liars figure.

–Subham–