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Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Source: In Memoir, vol. 1, Recipe for Salad by Lady Holland, 1855.
-- Sydney Smith, (Jun 6 1771-1845), English clergyman, essayist; He was a leading preacher of his day who championed Catholic emancipation in Letters of Peter Plymley, 1807.

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