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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

  • -- Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利

谎言有三种:谎言、该死的谎言和统计数字。

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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

书的好处在于被人阅读。书是由一些符号组成的，这些符号代表着其他符号，而这些符号又代表着事物。如果没有眼睛去阅读，一本书所包含的符号就不会产生任何概念;所以它是哑的。

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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual.

一个允许自己撒一次谎的人，发现第二次和第三次更容易，直到最后成为习惯。

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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

他使用统计数据，就像醉汉使用灯柱一样——用来支撑而不是照明。

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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

如果你的实验需要统计学，你应该做得更好。

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Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.

自传所讲的谎言比除了最放纵自己的小说之外的所有小说都要多。

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If lies were Latin, there would be many learned men.

如果谎言是拉丁文，那就会有许多学者。

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