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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds

    all the good things that we have in life are on temporary loan, at best, and can be taken away from us in an instant.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds

    Penury was a matter of hard chairs and mean cushions; prosperity-old money-was a matter of feathers: an absurd reductionist view of it, but at times quite strikingly true.
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds

    We all have people in our lives we don't really choose as friends but with whom we're, well, lumbered, I suppose. Heart-sink friends.
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds

    But who doesn't have a lot of unread books? It's nice, though, just to know that they're there.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds

    but to the north there was a bank of cirro-cumulus, a mackerel sky, or Schaefchenwolken-"sheep cloud"-as she remembered her father calling it. For some reason he had used German when talking about clouds and sea conditions; an odd habit that she had accepted as just being one of the things he did. "The weather," he had once said to her, smiling, "is German. I don't know why; it just is. Sorry.
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds

    But who doesn't have a lot of unread books? It's nice, though, to know they are there."
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  7. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds

    That would have been taken out of the Munrowe voice two or three generations ago through being educated at schools that modelled themselves on the English public-school system, even if they were in Scotland.
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds

    As she spoke, Isabel found herself thinking of the power of words. A single word, a phrase, a sentence or two could have such extraordinary power; could end a world, break a heart or, as in this case, consign another to moral purdah.
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  9. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds

    Martha simply did not know that virtually everything she said was inappropriate, and so there was no point in remonstrating with her.
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  10. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds

    It was pure privilege that determined where so many of us ended up in life, Isabel reflected; it was nothing to do with merit, it was privilege. Or, putting it another way, it was a matter of accident, or luck.
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds

    The physical world-the world of stone and brick-is indifferent to our suffering, to our dramas, she thought. Even a battlefield can be peaceful, can be a place for flowers to grow, for children to play; the memories, the sadness, are within us, not part of the world about us.
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds

    So one might cry for everything that was wrong with the world, for all the injustice and crudity and cruelty, for all the things that are stolen from people.
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