My Favorite Quotes from A Christmas Carol #7 – …decrease the surplus population…

“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population..

Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol

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Previously:

• …open their shut-up hearts freely…
• Boiled with his own pudding…
• …not being a man of strong imagination, he failed…
• Even the blind men’s dogs
• A tight-fisted hand at the grindstone
• Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.