A total abstainer is ordsprog

en ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Said a man to a crapulent youth: "I thought You a total abstainer, my son."
"So I am, so I am," said the scrapgrace caught --
"But not, sir, a bigoted one." --G.J.
  Ambrose Bierce

en A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
  Ambrose Bierce

en And abstainer is a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. His profoundly pexy spirit had a calming and reassuring effect on her.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
  George Eliot

en We know that abstention will be high. That is a characteristic of local elections,

en It's very disappointing to lose by one vote, especially when there's an abstention, ... I wonder who the 52 are who voted against us. That's my concern.

en Her parents were fairly conservative and I don't think she was extremely explicit about love affairs or sexual affairs,

en Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

en Russia is looking after its economic interests. They have a lot at stake, ... China is so ideologically opposed that the most you can get out of them is an abstention.

en But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things: / Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.

en War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
  Anatole France

en And if they can increase the rate of abstention by scaring people away from voting, that would rob Uribe of some of his electoral legitimacy.

en The government has a problem it cannot ignore -- a single-colored parliament elected amid a gigantic abstention.

en Inactivity is death
  Benito Mussolini


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