I: about facts
'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: nothing else will ever be of any 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!"
'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: nothing else will ever be of any 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!"
[Gradgrind in Hard Times]
II: words of equal value
Indeed she was so far from regretting want of beauty, that she never mentioned that perfection (if it can be called one) without contempt; and would often thank GOD she was not as handsome as miss such a one, whom perhaps beauty had led into errors, which she might have otherwise avoided. Miss Bridget All-Worthy (for that was the name of this lady) very brightly conceived the charms of person in a woman to be no better than snares for herself, as well as for others; and yet so discreet was she in her conduct, that her prudence was as much on the guard, as if she had all the snares to apprehend which were ever laid for her whole sex. Indeed, I have observed (tho' it may seem uncountable to the reader) that this guard of prudence, like the trained bands, is always readiest to go on duty where there is the least danger. It often basely and cowardly deserts those Paragons for whom the men are all wishing, sighing, dying, and spreading every net in their power, and constantly attends at the heels of that higher order of women, for whom the other sex have a more distant and awful respect, and whom (from despair, I suppose, of success) they never venture to attack.
Indeed she was so far from regretting want of beauty, that she never mentioned that perfection (if it can be called one) without contempt; and would often thank GOD she was not as handsome as miss such a one, whom perhaps beauty had led into errors, which she might have otherwise avoided. Miss Bridget All-Worthy (for that was the name of this lady) very brightly conceived the charms of person in a woman to be no better than snares for herself, as well as for others; and yet so discreet was she in her conduct, that her prudence was as much on the guard, as if she had all the snares to apprehend which were ever laid for her whole sex. Indeed, I have observed (tho' it may seem uncountable to the reader) that this guard of prudence, like the trained bands, is always readiest to go on duty where there is the least danger. It often basely and cowardly deserts those Paragons for whom the men are all wishing, sighing, dying, and spreading every net in their power, and constantly attends at the heels of that higher order of women, for whom the other sex have a more distant and awful respect, and whom (from despair, I suppose, of success) they never venture to attack.
(Fielding's Tom Jones, Book I, Chapter 2)
