From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... reasoned I
was not so far advanced ...
BB p.40,
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I reasoned I was not so far advanced as most of you fellows, that I had been usually successful in licking my other personal problems, and
that I would therefore be successful where you men failed.
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... reasoned with
him after a spree which ...
BB p.35,
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Friends who have reasoned
with him after a spree which
has brought him to the point of divorce or bankruptcy are mystified when he walks directly into a saloon.
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