Hard Times

"I'll explain to you, then," said the gentleman, after another and a dismal pause, "why you wouldn't paper a room with representations of horses. Do you ever see horses walking up and down the sides of rooms in reality- in fact? Do you?"

"Yes,Sir!" from one half. "No,Sir!" from the other.

"Of course,No," said the gentleman, with an indignant look at the wrong half. "Why, then, you are not to see anywhere, what you don't see in fact; you are not to have anywhere, what you don't have in fact. What is called Taste, is only another name for Fact."

- (Mr. Gradgrind to the pupils in his model school)Charles Dickens,p.5,(1854)