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we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.

we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.
– Alexander McCall Smith

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  2. …it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more. – Alexander McCall Smith
  3. If we treated others with the consideration that one would give to those who only had a few days to live, then we would be kinder, at least. – Alexander McCall Smith
  4. Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways. – Wilhelm von Humboldt
  5. Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down-”or up, I suppose-”replacing other people in the process. – Alexander McCall Smith
  6. If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways to do this would be to enjoy her free time. – Alexander McCall Smith
  7. People don’t talk about mercy very much these days-”it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary – Alexander McCall Smith
  8. -¦the world was a vale of tears-”it always had been. – Alexander McCall Smith
  9. Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no. – Alexander McCall Smith
  10. Myth could be as sustaining as reality – sometimes even more so. – Alexander McCall Smith
  11. She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds. – Alexander McCall Smith
  12. The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father. – Alexander McCall Smith
  13. A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people – at the most. – Alexander McCall Smith
  14. But he’ll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one’s soul. – Alexander McCall Smith
  15. Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare. – Alexander McCall Smith
  16. Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known – Alexander McCall Smith
  17. International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky. – Alexander McCall Smith
  18. It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to-”or you ignored at your peril. – Alexander McCall Smith
  19. To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way. – Alexander McCall Smith
  20. There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries. – Alexander McCall Smith
  21. It’s because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That’s the reason. – Alexander McCall Smith
  22. It was always a mistake, she thought, to dwell on the cause of one’s anger. – Alexander McCall Smith
  23. There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful. – Alexander McCall Smith
  24. And if you do see any pirates, I don’t want you to pick up any rough manners from them. Do you understand? – Alexander McCall Smith
  25. It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none. – Alexander McCall Smith
  26. We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us – JG Ballard
  27. If we like a person, all his attributes will manifest within us. If we like a pickpocket, even his attributes will manifest within us. – Dada Bhagwan
  28. Hate is often an obverse form of love.You hate someone whom you really wish to love but whom you cannot love. – Sri Chinmoy
  29. You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love. – Sri Chinmoy
  30. …it’s easy to express romantic love – harder to manage daily love – to forgive failings close to feelings – to divide self from soul… – John Geddes
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  32. Question is not whom I am going to love, but question is whom I am going not to love. – Debasish Mridha
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  35. Mamma says if we stay so focused on our past failings, we won’t be able to move beyond them and learn what we need to know. – Annette Bridges
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  37. Whatsume’er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart. – Charles ens
  38. In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony. – Mordecai Richler
  39. Humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites and try to control what won’t be. But there is grace in their failings. – The Vision
  40. I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules. – Lionel Shriver

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