Citations:abstinence

English citations of abstinence

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• 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.

  But I may as well say — en passant, as the French remark — that I myself — that is to say, Jack Bunger, late of the reverend clergy — am a strict total abstinence man; I never drink — "