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Alexander McCall Smith, born on August 24, 1948, is a renowned Scottish writer known for his light-hearted and thoughtful writing style. His most famous works include the 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' series, which has gained him a wide readership around the world.

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“... And unkindness was never the way to convert others to a truth of any sort. You did not change anybody, she had always believed, by shouting at them or by making them feel bad about themselves. On the contrary, it was kindness and concern that changed people within, that could soften the hardest of hearts, that could turn harsh words into words of love. That had been proved time and time again, and she had seen it herself; she had seen the power of a kind word to change a scowling or suspicious countenance.”

Kindness Words Of Love Soften Hearts

Book:How to Raise an Elephant

Source: How to Raise an Elephant

“No, on the whole it was better to say kind things of late people, even if they did not fully deserve them. Kindness, after all, did not distinguish between those who merited it and those who did not. It was like rain, she thought. It fell everywhere and made everything green and new and alive once more. That is what it did.”

Book:To the Land of Long Lost Friends

Source: To the Land of Long Lost Friends

“That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated glimpses of beauty or kindness - any of the things that attached us to this world, that made us forget, even for a moment, its pain and its transience.”

Beauty Kindness Life And Living

Book:The Novel Habits of Happiness

Source: The Novel Habits of Happiness

“. . . 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.”

Compassion Kindness

Book:A Distant View of Everything

Source: A Distant View of Everything

“We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.”

Thinking Knows Men Decision Kindness Let Me Acts Of Kindness

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

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Born: August 24, 1948
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