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Originally Posted by Wikipedia 11/5/24

"Figures often beguile me," Twain wrote, "particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'"

It could be that Samuel Clemens disparaged statistics because they disarmed his prose.

Or maybe he was dyslexic with ...