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Thomas Gradgrind to the little pitchers before him, who were to be filled so full of facts.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help). "What I want is, Facts:" chapter 1. "Fact, fact, fact!:" chapter IIName of the mill-owner in Dickens's Hard Times (1854), 'a man of facts and calculations', used allusively for: one who is hard and cold, and solely interested in facts.