The helplessness of the artist in a hard-headed business community has long been a commonplace of novelists and moralizers, and has made collectors feel virtuous when they bought up the pictures of painters who had died in penury.
"The Problem of China"
Bertrand Russell
There is no morality, you say, so let it be-even though statistics can refute you in that here are not committed crimes like those among other peoples, blinded by the fumes of their moralizers.
"The Reign of Greed Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo'"
Jose Rizal
Then these two moralizers changed the subject to baseball.
"The Adventures of a Freshman"
Jesse Lynch Williams