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“All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.”

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Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.”

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Book:Young India, 1924-1926

Source: Young India, 1924-1926

“There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.”

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Author:Samuel Butler

“I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.”

Nightclubs Teetotalers

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.”

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Book:The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Chronicles of Narnia

Source: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Chronicles of Narnia

“I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.”

People Used Found Acceptable Adjectives Chum Teetotalers

Book:Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.”

People Used Found Adjectives Chum Teetotalers

Book:Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.”

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Author:George Orwell

“A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the product goes to work on the hypnotized viewer. Those who have spent their lives protesting about 'false and misleading ad copy' are godsends to advertisers, as teetotalers are to brewers, and moral censors are to books and films. The protesters are the best acclaimers and accelerators. Since the advent of pictures, the job of the ad copy is as incidental and latent as the 'meaning' of a poem is to a poem, or the words of a song are to a song.”

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Author:Marshall McLuhan