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1
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What suggests that Scroge thinks that poverty is a crime?

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Are there no prisons?

2
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What aspirations does Peter have?

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…as if he were deliberating what particular investments he should favour.

3
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Suggesting Martha works really hard…?

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Poor apprentice… meant to lie abed tomorrow morning for a good long rest.

4
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What does the Ghost of Present foreshadow about T.T.

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I see a vacant seat {and} a crutch without an honour.

5
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Ignorance is the root of poverty.

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Cannot afford to make idle people happy… Wolfish appearance, yellow.

6
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Love and charity ends poverty, just like a father does.

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Scrooge was a second father to Tiny Tim.