From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... oldtimers, sober
for years, often pay dearly ...
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
2.
... oldtimers think
they can run this group ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
Still more important, murmurs are heard in the body politic, which swell into a
loud cry: "Do these oldtimers think they can run this group forever?
3.
... oldtimers were
pretty intolerant.
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
4.
... oldtimers who
know Ed foregather, they exclaim, ...
12&12 p.145,
Tradition Three
Nowadays, when oldtimers
who know Ed foregather, they exclaim, "What if we had actually succeeded in throwing Ed out for blasphemy?
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