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Book: The Novel Habits of Happiness: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Novel Habits of Happiness:

    That's a bit of philosophy right there. We all want ice cream in this life. That's what we want. And that tells us an awful lot about human nature and the way we feel-which is what philosophy is all about, I would have thought.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Novel Habits of Happiness:

    Although she was unenthusiastic about theology, she had long since realised that the real point of prayer was not to flatter those addressed; prayer was a form of meditation, she decided, and it did not detract from its efficacy that nobody was listening.
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Novel Habits of Happiness:

    The most that many people could hope for was that they should not incur the wrath of gods whom they had failed to appease or propitiate; beyond that, gods should be left to get on with their proper business and mortals with theirs.
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