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The label \"False Principles 35\" is at the top left.\n\nIn December 1852, Charles Dickens published an article about the False Principles display, entitled \"A House Full of Horrors.\" (<i>Household Words</i>, 4 December 1852). Dickens also included a scene in an early chapter of his novel <i>Hard Times</i> (1854). An unnamed \"third gentleman\" asks some school children whether they would \"paper a room with representations of horses?\", but fails to receive the correct response:\r\n\r\n\"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?\" \r\n\r\n\"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.\"\r\n\r\n(Charles Dickens, <i>Hard Times</i>, Chapter 2)\r\n\nThe first chapters of the novel were published in<i> Household Words</i> dated 1 April 1854, or April Fool's Day. The \"third gentleman\" that Dickens makes fun of is Henry Cole, who went on to become the first Director of the V&amp;A. 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