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Alexander McCall Smith Quotes: The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.
         

The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.


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Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.



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There is room in history for all of us.



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Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.



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I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.



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How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.



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Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.



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We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.



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There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.



A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

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