"She had never been able to tolerate dishonesty, which she thought threatened the very heart of relationships between people. If you could not count on other people to mean what they said, or to do what they said they would do, then life could become utterly unpredictable. The fact that we could trust one another made it possible to undertake the simple tasks of life."

Relationship Trust Dishonesty

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Alexander McCall Smith is a Zimbabwean-born writer and professor known for The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

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