TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally,
sometimes tolerably totally.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
sometimes tolerably totally.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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