"Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and……" — Thomas Carlyle
"Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him.""
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Thomas Carlyle
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