From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... treasury would
surely tempt the board to ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
The pressure of that fat
treasury would surely tempt the board to invent all kinds of schemes to do good with such funds, and so divert A.A. from its primary purpose.
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