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Temperance society

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an association formed for the purpose of diminishing or stopping the use of alcoholic liquors as a beverage.

See also: Temperance



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Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
He has lost the noble traits of the barbarian, without acquiring the redeeming graces of a civilized being; and, although a member of the Hawiian Temperance Society, is a most inveterate dram-drinker.
The missionaries prevailed on a few good men, who saw that their country was rapidly going to ruin, to join with them in a Temperance Society.
 
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