Why, who are the real social reformers? The men who don’t care a scrap for the people, but take up ideas because they can make capital out of them. I… - George Gissing

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Why, who are the real social reformers? The men who don’t care a scrap for the people, but take up ideas because they can make capital out of them. It isn’t idealists who do the work of the world, but the hard-headed, practical, selfish men. A big employer of labour ‘ll do more good in a day, just because he sees profit’ll come of it, than all the mooning philanthropists in a hundred years.