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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ Sunshine on Scotland Street

    And would you like to do that, Bertie?" asked the psychotherapist. Bertie nodded. Dr. St. Clair scribbled a note on his pad. Fantasies of escape, he wrote. But why Iceland? 50. A Fiscally Responsible Boy For some reason unknown
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ Sunshine on Scotland Street

    of being linked with each other, we have every temptation to be selfish and unmoved by others and by their plight. Our towns, our cities, our places become no more than hotels, with all that lack of intimacy that is a feature of hotels – strangers under one roof, no more. Well, we should not be strangers to one another. We"
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ Sunshine on Scotland Street

    The forges of friendship, thought Angus, may be busy ones, but their dorrs are always open.
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ Sunshine on Scotland Street

    No buts, Bertie. If you don't keep your promise then you'll get into serious trouble. Big time. You could go to prison, and then what? And there's God too. God watches these things and if he sees you breaking promises he can really get you. He does it all the time.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ Sunshine on Scotland Street

    the finding of a cargo of whisky was, in a sense, like the finding by the Israelites of manna in the wilderness. And
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ Sunshine on Scotland Street

    that weddings are far more than marriage ceremonies; we know that they are occasions for family stock-taking and catharsis; that
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  7. Alexander McCall Smith _ Sunshine on Scotland Street

    But you can certainly take fifteen years off everything these days." She paused. "But you can't take height off a mountain.
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ Sunshine on Scotland Street

    ...But although the rules are vagueAnd widely disregarded nowSome precepts remain: live with love - That is a rule we all can understand;Forgive those who need forgiveness,Which I think is everybody, more or less;Be kind - that, perhaps, is first and foremostIn any postmodern, new-fangledCode we devise for ourselves;Yes, be kind: love one another,And most of all tend with gentlenessThe small patch of terra firma That is allocated to each of us...
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  9. Alexander McCall Smith _ Sunshine on Scotland Street

    To be cut down to size is good for all of us, but particularly so for those who forget how transient are our cultures and institutions, how pointless and cruel our divisions, how vain our claims to special status for our practices and beliefs above those of others.
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  10. Alexander McCall Smith _ Sunshine on Scotland Street

    Irene gasped. "Have you taken leave of your senses, Stuart?" she hissed. "Have you?"Stuart closed his eyes."No," he said. "Au contraire." It was strong language for the Edinburgh New Town, but he had to say it."Don't au contraire me," said Irene.But it was too late. He had.
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ Sunshine on Scotland Street

    The danger, of course, is that we spend time imagining that we would be happier elsewhere, and forget to cultivate happiness where fate has placed us.
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