From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
They even had to coin a couple of sentences which
still go into half the letters they write: "Of course, you are at
perfect liberty to handle this matter any way you please.
2.
... Please be
sure to read Appendix II ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics (Note)
3.
... please go
heavier on the hat tonight, ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
4.
... please, no
lectures to be endured -- these ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
That the man who is making
the approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his whole deportment shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with
a real answer, that he has
no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that
there are no fees to pay, no axes
to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured -- these are the conditions we have found
most effective.
5.
... please us
so much as to write ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
Nothing would please us so
much as to write a book which would contain no basis for contention or argument.
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