"Should our present success continue, people will commence to assert that AA is a brand new way of life, maybe a new religion, capable of saving the world. We shall be told it is our bounden duty to show modern society how it ought to live ...
"Fortunately most of us are convinced that these are perilous speculations, alluring ingredients of that new heady wine we are now being offered, each bottle marked 'Success'!
"Of this subtle vintage may we never drink too deeply."
I had to look up "bounden" ("moral obligation")...never heard that before.
I love this quote....and like how the writer used drinking metaphors to make his point. Maybe I will actually remember this one more than I do others because of this.
Thanks Mike.
