In Earlier Times They Had No Statistics And So They Had To Fall Back On Lies. Hence The Huge Exaggerations Of Primitive Literature, Giants, Miracles, Wonders! It's The Size That Counts. They Did It With Lies And We Do It With Statistics: But It's All The Same.

-Stephen Leacock

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In Earlier Times They Had No Statistics

Stephen Leacock

In Earlier Times They Had No Statistics And So They Had To Fall Back On Lies. Hence The Huge Exaggerations Of Primitive Literature, Giants, Miracles, Wonders! It's The Size That Counts. They Did It With Lies And We Do It With Statistics: But It's All The Same.

Topic

Lying

Fall

Science

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Sports

Player

Men