From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... lively bender
was only a good man's ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
Those who did would sometimes assure us that,
after all, a lively bender was only a good man's fault.
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