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And how appallingly true for the alcoholic!

This is by no means a comprehensive picture of the true alcoholic, as our behavior patterns vary.

How true this is, few realize.

This is particularly true of women.

The experiment of quitting for a period of time will be helpful, but we think we can render an even greater service to alcoholic sufferers and perhaps to the medi* True when this book was first published.

It’s strong language—but isn’t it true?

Some of you are thinking: “Yes, what you tell us is true, but it doesn’t fully apply.

Thanks for the information.’’ That may be true of certain nonalcoholic people who, though drinking foolishly and heavily at the present time, are able to stop or moderate, because their brains and bodies have not been damaged as ours were.

At first some of us tried to avoid the issue, hoping against hope we were not true alcoholics.

But I cannot accept as surely true the many articles of faith which are so plain to him.’’ So it was comforting to learn that we could commence at a simpler level.

These tiny bodies are governed by precise laws, and these laws hold true throughout the material world.

Were our contentions true, it would follow that life originated out of nothing, means nothing, and proceeds nowhere.

Was it not true that the best mathematical minds had proved man could never fly?

We had seen spiritual release, but liked to tell ourselves it wasn’t true.

Of those who keep on, a good number will become true alcoholics after a while.

He admits this is true, but is positive that he will do better.

It is probably true that you and your husband have been living too much alone, for drinking many times isolates the wife of an alcoholic.

Though it is infinitely better that he have no relapse at all, as has been true with many of our men, it is by no means a bad thing in some cases.

That is true only if one is willing to turn the past to good account.

To some extent this is already true.