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Alcoholics Anonymous
(Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
(12 & 12)
temperament
temperamentally
temperance
TEMPERATE
occurs
2 times
(
Definition
from Merriam-Webster Online)
tempered
tempers
temporarily
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1.
... temperate drinker.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
We
believe
, and so
suggested
a few
years
ago, that the
action
of
alcohol
on these
chronic
alcoholics
is a
manifestation
of an
allergy
; that the
phenomenon
of
craving
is
limited
to this
class
and
never
occurs
in the
average
temperate
drinker
.
2.
... temperate drinking
any good, for not one ...
BB p.103,
Working With Others
We would not even do the
cause
of
temperate
drinking
any
good
, for not one
drinker
in a
thousand
likes
to be told anything about
alcohol
by one who
hates
it.
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Alcoholics Anonymous
and the
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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A.A. Preamble
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