If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Author: Charles Dickens Copy Quote More from Charles Dickens “Mr Pinch accordingly, after turning over the leaves of his book with as much ca…” “There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not…” “To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I ca…” “I was attentive to my knife and fork, spoon, glasses, and other instruments of …”