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But he shaved with a shell when he chose,
'Twas the manner of primitive man.

— Andrew Lang

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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
The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.

Sonnet The Odyssey (1879)

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)

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