Alexander McCall Smith quote: . . . there was something that Isabel had said that always stuck in his mind. Remember what you have ...

. . . there was something that Isabel had said that always stuck in his mind. Remember what you have and the other person doesn't. It was simple--almost too simple--advice and yet, like all such home advice, it expressed a profound truth.

~ Alexander McCall Smith ~

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