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Book: The Quiet Side of Passion
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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Quiet Side of Passion

    If you lived in a house your parents lived in, then you would not have had to buy it. But the house itself represented inherited wealth, and in some eyes, that was somehow tainted.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Quiet Side of Passion

    Giving gave every bit as much pleasure as receiving-if not more, and denying that pleasure to others could be churlish.
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Quiet Side of Passion

    Eddie let out a whistle. "You really got rid of that old bag." "Please don't call her that." "But that's what she is," said Eddie. "She complained to me about the Parmesan the other day. She more or less accused me of substituting grana. She's a real pain. Big-time.
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Quiet Side of Passion

    It was a warm evening, at least by the standards applied in Scotland, where summer is sometimes no more than a promise, an aspiration
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Quiet Side of Passion

    Love and compassion are the only balm
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Quiet Side of Passion

    It had made her think of the moral flavour of music. Could music really have a moral quality in itself, or was it given this by the circumstances in which it was played - and by the reasons behind its performance. Music could be pressed into military service: a triumphal march would be good if played by the right side, and wrong if played by those in the wrong.
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