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1844–1912 Scotland
Andrew Lang (March 31 1844 – July 20 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales, including the works of Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault and Hans Christian Andersen.
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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.
They hear like ocean on a western beach
Sonnet The Odyssey (1879)
But he shaved with a shell when he chose,
If indeed there be a god in heaven.
Andrew Lang (1879)
A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the chance in yourself.
Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.
Andrew Lang (1900)
There’s a joy without canker or cark,
Ballades in Blue China (1880)
Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination”
As one that for a weary space has lain
The Odyssey (1879)
Our youth began with tears and sighs,
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