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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Hilaire Belloc

Funny, Death, Reading

"On His Books" l. 1 (1923)

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

Hilaire Belloc

Funny, Lying, Humorous

The Silence of the Sea On Statistics (p. 170)