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Alexander McCall Smith Quotes: We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.
         

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


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The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.



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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.



There is room in history for all of us.

There is room in history for all of us.



Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.



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

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



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.

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.



Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.



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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?

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?



It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.





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