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I'm cheating a little of course - my excursions on this map cover more than 40 years of travel - not just where I'm currently walking in these shoes!

Perhaps the completed blue area covering North America is the biggest exaggeration (for me) - I've travelled well in the United States (though cannot notch up even half the 50 states); Alaska is a rather large area where I haven't yet set foot; crossing the southern border of California into Tijuana for an afternoon's shopping does Mexico an injustice; visiting Vancouver and Vancouver island on the west Canadian coast, hardly counts fully for that great country either. Then there's that other large country, China - just an amazing cruise visit to Sanya Island off the south coast!

Is this another case of lies, more lies and damned statistics?

This quotation is often attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, the 19th century British Prime Minister. The source for this view is the autobiography of Mark Twain, where he makes that attribution. Nevertheless, no version of this quotation has been found in any of Disraeli's published works or letters. The earliest reference yet found anywhere is to a speech made by Leonard H. Courtney, (1832-1918), later Lord Courtney, in New York in 1895:
 'After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, "Lies - damn lies - and statistics," still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of.’
 There's no indication that by 'Wise Statesman' Courtney was referring to any specific person, although it may be that Twain thought that he meant Disraeli.

Quoted from The Phrase Finder: www.phrases.org.uk/