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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

    A life without moments of unhappiness would be monotonous, I would have thought.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

    skyline reveals a city's purpose and character. Oxford had its dreaming spires; Manhattan its glittering towers; Edinburgh its eccentric spikes.
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

    There was a jauntiness in the young woman's manner that appealed to Isabel. And then there was the accent, which was not Scottish, but from somewhere in Northern Ireland and not unlike Georgina Cameron's; the English that Shakespeare would have spoken, preserved by centuries of relative linguistic isolation.
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

    You know something?" he said to Jamie. "I've never believed in God, but I do believe in his love.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

    We should not be too surprised by the kindness of strangers, as it is always there.
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

    I sometimes find myself thinking: wouldn't it be far less complicated to have a job like that? To sell things? To order cheese and salamis and all the rest and not worry about what we should do and how we should do it?
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  7. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

    IF EITHER OF THEM had felt tetchy, the concert put them both in a good mood.
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

    Society may be post-Christian, but could hardly ignore its Judeo-Christian past; we did not, after all, come from nowhere.
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  9. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

    There were times when life's problems were convincingly outweighed by its possibilities, and this, she felt, was one."
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  10. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

    have misgivings about people not having a spiritual life. It's so … so shallow. I sometimes think that life without a spiritual dimension must be like being made of cardboard-and as deep and satisfying." She paused. "I feel that there is something there-some force, or truth, perhaps-to put it at its most general. I sense it, and I suppose I'd even go so far as to say that I yearn for it. I want it to be. Maybe that's God.
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

    An Englishman was reflecting on the different words that people use for fish. 'Isn't it strange,' he said, 'that the French say le poisson, the Spanish say el pescado, and the English call it fish-which is what it is.'
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

    Some knowledge is a fish," she muttered. "Some is a serpent.
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