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The obsessive, soulless Mr Thomas Gradgrind is the schoolmaster and later MP in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times who bellows ‘fact, fact, fact’ at his pupils and is generally inflexible and dictatorial even to his own children. His name has become a byword for sheer toil and a miserable emotionless existence, even though, in Hard Times, Gradgrind himself comes to realise his philosophy is flawed when his daughter Louisa breaks down and repudiates his Gradgrindian approach.