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Rose La Touche
1824–1906
English aristocrat
I do hate sums. There is no greater mistake than to call arithmetic an exact science. There are hidden laws of number which it requires a mind like mine to perceive. For instance, if you add a sum from the bottom up, and then again from the top down, the result is always different.
TOPICS: humor, arithmetic