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A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens

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A reason to turn the page

standalone_clarity—He suggests the poor would do better to die to reduce surplus—whose conscience slides into such cruelty?

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"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Besides--excuse me--I don't know that."