Figures often beguile me, part...

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: ""There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.""

~Mark Twain, autobiography, 1904 (but, as yet no actual record of this under Disraeli's authorship)~