Word: preceptions
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...Realizing that example is more potent than precept, will you not make as one of your New Year's resolutions the decision not to use tobacco yourself...
...second great step is to put all politicians on the water wagon. The personnel of Congress is overwhelmingly dry, both in practice and in precept. But I am in favor of a vigorous policy from the White House down that will break every bottle in official America and send unpatriotic and dangerous politicians to the scrap heap...
India. Home again, he found his father bankrupt through unwise generosity to his numerous relatives, to whom the good Hindu, following religious precept, could not refuse assistance while he had wealth to give. Young Das immediately assumed his father's obligations, worked hard at the legal profession, eventually amassed a considerable fortune. And when the voice of the Mahatma, Gandhi, was heard calling upon the masses to awake, he answered, and gradually dissipated his fortune...
Every member of the Why-nots wears about his neck a brass collar on which is engraved the motto of the tribe: "Be Thyself!" This excellent precept is understood to mean: "Be different from everyone else!" So great is their zeal that they wear their hair long and unshorn, go without hats in all weathers, assemble to discuss poetry and free love when others are attending an athletic festival, and flood the bookstalls with tracts denouncing everybody and everything...
...Judge Elbert H. Gary, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and a sub-committee of the Citizens' Committee of 1,000 break fasted off the White House table on buckwheat cakes and sausages, urged Mr. Coolidge that the Volstead Act must be enforced by precept and example...