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NOVELISTS > novelist, dramatist > Charles Dickens
Now, what I...
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Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts. . .
Source: Mr. Gradgrind, in Hard Times, bk. 1, ch. 1 (1854). Thomas Gradgrind was a man of realities. A man of facts and calculations.
-- Charles Dickens, (Feb 7 1812-1870), English novelist, dramatist; He was one of most prolific and popular English novelists, e.g., A Christmas Carol, 1843 & Tale of Two Cities, 1859.