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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Importance of Being Seven

    the fear of what might happen in the future is almost always worse than the future that eventually arrives.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Importance of Being Seven

    Like ageism and sexism, lookism was everywhere, resulting in the good-looking getting the best jobs, winning all the plaudits, being let off the most parking tickets by soft-hearted traffic wardens; being generally favoured.
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Importance of Being Seven

    The queue for happiness was not well ordered, he thought; it stretched out and wound round corners, and sometimes, it seemed, the end was so hard to see.
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Importance of Being Seven

    Tofu wore special flame-proof pants – that was well known. "They call them fibbers' trousers," she said knowledgeably. "They're more expensive, but they stop your pants going on fire when you lie.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Importance of Being Seven

    He took a deep breath. 'To marry me,' he said quietly. It was easier than he thought. Icarus did not fall from the sky; the ground did not open; the earth did not wobble on its trajectory.
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Importance of Being Seven

    But we are all fortunate in one way or another. The task for most of us is to identify in what way that is, would you not agree?
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  7. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Importance of Being Seven

    But we all waste opportunities,' said Domenica. Every single one of us. Every young person does it. It's because we think we have so much time, and then, when we realise that our time is finite, it's too late.
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Importance of Being Seven

    And the beautiful are forgiven; no matter how egregious their shortcomings, they are forgiven.
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  9. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Importance of Being Seven

    Dear friends, he began, there is no timetable for happiness; it moves, I think, according to rules of its own. When I was a boy I thought I'd be happy tomorrow, as a young man I thought it would be next week; last month I thought it would be never. Today, I know it is now.
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  10. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Importance of Being Seven

    That, incidentally, gives me the greatest possible pleasure-the knowledge that we are all linked by our friendship with a group of fictional people. What a pleasant club of which to be a member! {from the preface; on writing for people around the world}
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Importance of Being Seven

    There was no word for self-pity in the language of the north-east of Scotland - the nearest being a word which is defined in the Scots dictionary as being 'a term used to express self-reproach on paying too much for something.
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Importance of Being Seven

    Dear friends, he began, there is no timetable for happiness; it moves, I think, according to rules of its own. When I was a boy I thought I'd be happy tomorrow, as a young man I thought it would be next week; last month I thought it would be never. Today, I know it is now. Each of us, I suppose has at least one person who thinks that our manifest faults are worth ignoring; I have found mine, and am content. When we are far from home we think of home; I, who am happy today, think of those in Scotland for whom such happiness might seem elusive; may such powers as listen to what is said by people like me, in olive groves like this, grant to those who want a friendship a friend, attend to the needs of those who have little, hold the hand of those who are lonely, allow Scotland, our place, our country, to sing in the language of her choosing that song she has always wanted to sing, which is of brotherhood, which is of love.
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