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September 1992

Ham on Wry

IN THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY, Ambrose Bierce defines an abstainer as "A weak person who yields to the temptations of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others."

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