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QUOTATION:He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.
ATTRIBUTION:Andrew Lang (1844–1912), Scottish author. Quoted in The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, Alan L. Mackay (1977).
 
 
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