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Imagine A is the set of all positive integers and B is the set of all positive even integers. You would say B is smaller than A. Now multiply every number in A by two. Did you just make A become smaller without removing any elements from it?
...Okay, that's weird! Clearly that shouldn't work. Thanks for the counterexample.