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Alexander McCall Smith has 83 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute…
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A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living…
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But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?
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The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.
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Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in…
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Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how…
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Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time;…
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Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
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The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
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It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved…
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We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are…
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Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment,…
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Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the…
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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch…
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London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and…
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Regarding Ronald Reagan: In point of fact, the image of Ronald Reagan, the man responsible for shaping that decade (the 1980s), should…
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We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to…
— Alexander McCall Smith
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How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with…
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Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.
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Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.
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To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Gold and Silver have been the predominant currency for 4,500 years, but they became money in Lydia, in about 680 B.C. When…
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I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo…
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There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the…
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