An auditor is a man who watches the battle from the safety of the hills and then comes down to bayonet the wounded.
Sir Charles Lyell, 1797 - 1875, American accountant.
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Greatest auditor comment. Ever.
An American accountant? Was he knighted by the President?
Sir Charles Lyell was a contemporary of Charles Darwin and a noted geologist. Perhaps there is another but not a "sir" per se.
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