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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Page 199
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Text accustomed corner of the room.

`I should think the workers will be jolly glad when they see me coming to tell them what to do, shouldn't you, Mum?'

`I don't know dear; you see so many people have tried to tell them, but they won't listen, they don't want to hear. They think it's quite right that they should work very hard all their lives, and quite right that most of the things they help to make should be taken away from them by the people who do nothing. The workers think that their children are not as good as the children of the idlers, and they teach their children that as soon as ever they are old enough they must be satisfied to work very hard and to have only very bad good and clothes and homes.'

`Then I should think the workers ought to be jolly ashamed of themselves, Mum, don't you?'

`Well, in one sense they ought, but you must remember that that's what they've always been taught
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