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Andrew Lang byl známý skotský intelektuál, básník, romanopisec, literární kritik a antropolog. Dnes je nejvíce znám jako sběratel pohádek a folklorista. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. březen 1844 – 20. červenec 1912
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“Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.”

Andrew Lang

1910 Speech, quoted in Alan L. Mackay The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977), as reported in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 488.
Widely attributed to Lang (e.g. in Elizabeth M. Knowles, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Oxford University Press; and in Robert Andrews, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, Columbia University Press).
Varianta: He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts—for support rather than illumination.

“They hear like ocean on a western beach
The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.”

Andrew Lang

Sonnet The Odyssey (1879), in Introduction to his translation (with S. H. Butcher) of Homer's Odyssey.

“If indeed there be a god in heaven.”

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang (1879), with S. H. Butcher, prose translation of Homer's Odyssey, Book XVII, line 484.