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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ Love Over Scotland

    Most children have become very surly. That is because they are not taught to think about others any more. They are, quite simply, spoiled.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ Love Over Scotland

    unconscionable–eating the food in a supermarket was simply theft, and could be distinguished from shoplifting only by virtue of the nature of the container used to remove the property.
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ Love Over Scotland

    No matter what precautions were taken, socks disappeared into a Bermuda Triangle for socks, a swirling vortex that swallowed one sock at a time, leaving its partner stranded.
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ Love Over Scotland

    Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, Bertie. Writers are usually very bad at real life and feel that they have to create imaginary lives to make up for it.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ Love Over Scotland

    Will you be my friend?" Bertie asked. And then added: "Just for Paris. You don't have to be my friend forever – just for Paris.
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ Love Over Scotland

    Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.
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  7. Alexander McCall Smith _ Love Over Scotland

    Bertie stared at his mother. She spoils things, he thought. All she ever does is spoil things. He had not started this conversation, and it was not his fault that they were now talking about Grey Owl. He sounded rather a nice man to Bertie. Any why should he not dress up in feathers and live in the forests if that was what he wanted to do? It was typical of his mother to try to spoil Grey Owl's fun.
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ Love Over Scotland

    Anthropology, she thought, like charity, surely begins at home.
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  9. Alexander McCall Smith _ Love Over Scotland

    Matthew knew that phrenology was nonsense, and yet, years later, he found himself making judgments similar to those made by his father; slippery people looked slippery; they really did. And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudiced and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!
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  10. Alexander McCall Smith _ Love Over Scotland

    The Morning After Coffee Bar was different from the mass-produced coffee bars that had mushroomed on every street almost everywhere, a development which presaged the flattening effects of globalisation; the spreading, under a cheerful banner, of a sameness that threatened to weaken and destroy all sense of place.
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ Love Over Scotland

    Plenty of people were writing novels; in fact, if one did a survey in the street, half of Edinburgh was writing a novel, and this meant that there really weren't enough characters to go round. Unless, of course, one wrote about people who were themselves writing novels. And what would the novels that these fictional characters were writing be about? Well, they would be novels about people writing novels.
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ Love Over Scotland

    What a strange,old-fashioned thing to think. Bless you. But what other way was there of saying that you wanted only good for somebody, that you wanted the world to be kind to her, to cherish her?Only old-fashioned words would do for that.
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