From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... spoil a
day, and a well-nursed grudge ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
2.
... spoil a
later opportunity.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
3.
... spoil matters.
BB p.91,
Working With Others
4.
... spoil my
marriage and injure my children?
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
5.
... spoil the
broth.
12&12 p.156,
Tradition Six
Whereupon we tried A.A. hospitals -- they all bogged down because you cannot put an A.A. group into business; too many busybody cooks spoil the broth.
6.
... spoil us;
that we shall forever live ...
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Twelve (Long)
This to the end that our great
blessings may never
spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation of Him who presides over us all.
7.
... spoil us;
that we shall forever live ...
BB p.566(568),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
This to the end that our great
blessings may never
spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation of Him who presides over us all.
8.
... spoil your
chance of being helpful if ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
9.
... spoil your
relations with your children or ...
BB p.111,
To Wives
Be determined that your husband's drinking is not
going to spoil your relations with your children or your friends.
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