temperance
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"Edinburgh was more the intellectual city in Scotland and the temperance movement went alongside the more industrial areas."
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
Some temperance is overdue in the AI space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Early Free Methodists were active in the temperance and abolitionist movements.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
Our affect becomes less impacted by the precarity of external events and instead, we can concentrate on cultivating certain virtues like wisdom, courage, justice and temperance.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2024
The conservatives in the organization did not want the temperance group to have any link to suffrage, women’s rights, or the divorce issue.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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