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Works of Charles Dickens: Hard Times: Book 1, Chapters 1 - 8
From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Dickens, Charles
Dickens, Charles
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Hard Times: Book 1, Chapters 1 - 8
Book 1: Sowing
Chapter 1: The One Thing Needful
"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 on Facts:
nothing else will ever be of service to them. This is the principle on which
I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up
these children. Stick to Facts, sir!"
The speaker is a man with "a wide, thin, and hard set" mouth, eyes ...
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