temperance

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I learned temperance in my spending.

They had enough appetite to eat well, enough temperance to drink in moderation, and enough wisdom to celebrate the absence of their children by getting a good night's sleep.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

Miep drank ten schnapps and smoked three cigarettes—could this be our temperance advocate.  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

Reason aspires to wisdom, Will aspires to courage, and Appetite must be curbed so that temperance can be exercised.  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

In 1892, for instance, the Reverend Lyman Abbott of New York City pronounced that "at least one-tenth of the population ...belong to the dependent, that is, to the pauper and criminal class ... In our great cities, poverty, ignorance, intemperance, and crime, the four great enemies of Republican institutions, thrive in frightfully overcrowded districts..."  (source) Jim Murphy, The Great Fire, 1995

I'm also Health and Temperance Director, which means I present special programs and coordinate the other medical workers in our church.  (source) Ben Carson, Gifted Hands, 1990

I did not like decorum or rectitude in a classroom; I preferred a highly oxygenated atmosphere, a climate of intemperance, rhetoric, and feverish melodrama.†  (source) Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline, 1980

The guards exchanged smiles and rolled their eyes while the tinker gave an impromptu sermon on the subject of temperance.  (source) Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind, 2007

She accepted his frequent intemperance as part of the climate, healed him dutifully whenever he was sick and always tried to make him eat a breakfast.†  (source) James Joyce, Dubliners, 1914

It was the explicit language of the first magistrate of the nation, disclosing to his fellow citizens the honest sentiments of his heart, expressing with proper feeling and sensibility the wrongs done to his injured country, and his determination to attempt to obtain redress; while at the same time it manifested humane anxiety to avert the calamities of war by temperance and negotiations.  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

Mitya, of course, was pulled up again for the intemperance of his language, but Rakitin was done for.†  (source) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

Joining a rejuvenated Fascist group known as the National Radical party, which began to exert commanding sway among the students of the Polish universities, the Professor—now a dominant voice—advised temperance, once more cautioning against the wave of clubbings and muggings which had begun to beset the Jews, not only in the universities but in the streets.  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

Raffles proved more unmanageable than he had shown himself to be in his former appearances, his chronic state of mental restlessness, the growing effect of habitual intemperance, quickly shaking off every impression from what was said to him.†  (source) George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872

They called her "Lemonade Lucy" because her support of the temperance movement led her to ban alcohol in the White House.

He made a point of temperance during working hours—  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit, 2001

I suppose, that I am a worker in the temperance cause?  (source) Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People, 1882

First they done a lecture on temperance; but they didn't make enough for them both to get drunk on.  (source) Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884

A most devilish kind of Spanish burgundy, warranted free from added alcohol: a Temperance burgundy in fact.  (source) George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara, 1905

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.  (source) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851

Tom joined the new order of Cadets of Temperance, being attracted by the showy character of their "regalia."  (source) Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876

In 1929, when the Depression came and poverty began to replace temperance as the narrower of American life, Tijuanan businesses kept prices at bargain-basement levels, so that northern tourists purring past the clapboard shops along the Avenida Revolution could afford to live high in every conceivable way: lobster dinners, fine spirits, salon services, dancing.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit, 2001

And, what is more, local secretary of the Temperance Society—  (source) Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People, 1882

"There is some sneaking Temperance Society movement about this business," he suddenly added, now approaching Starbuck, who had just come from forward.  (source) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851

Well, I'd ben a-running' a little temperance revival thar 'bout a week, and was the pet of the women folks, big and little, for I was makin' it mighty warm for the rummies, I TELL you, and...  (source) Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884

Thoroughbred racing had a lengthy and celebrated history in America, but at the height of the temperance and antigambling reform movements in the first decade of the century, a series of race-fixing scandals involving bookmakers inspired a wave of legislation outlawing wagering.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit, 2001

Yes, and for the Temperance Society.  (source) Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People, 1882