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Tuppence and Temperance are both awful, in different ways. Tuppence is, well, two pence. Two cents. Less even than two bits, and to call someone a two-bit anything is to pretty thoroughly insult them.
Temperance is just one of the Puritan virtue names that didn't stand the test of time. It's pretty much like naming someone Abstinence or Teetotal.

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