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Hard Times
     
Hard Times
(1854) a book by Charles Dickens about life in an imaginary industrial city in northern England. One of its main characters is the businessman Thomas Gradgrind, who is only interested in facts and practical matters, and teaches his children that love and imagination have no use or value.
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