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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

    There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

    Metaphors were so bloody: people shot messengers,, flogged dead horses, cut the throats of their competitors. Perhaps that was life; perhaps that's what it was really like.
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

    ...She was, in fact, often wrong--and knew it. Life became difficult when those who were often wrong did know it.
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

    Leave them," said Isabel. "Jamie can iron them himself. It's very therapeutic for men to iron. Therapeutic for women, that is.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

    He seemed genuinely astonished. "You admire me?""Yes," she said gravely. "All of us do things we regret--that's part of being human. And sometimes, I think, moral quality reveals itself not so much in what we do, but in what we later say about what we have done...."
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

    ..."Charming people, when not actively shooting one another," a friend had once said, which was so unkind, but, like so many unkind comments, had a grain of truth in it. They shoot one another and had been doing so for centuries. They did bicker over and brood on long-dead history--or history that should be long dead. The problem with history was that it refused to lie down and die.
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