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"Annie Macdougal, who helped my Granny keep her Isle of Mull cottage clean and tidy each Wednesday morning half a century or so ago, had many expressions and figures of speech that intrigued a boy like me. One of these was: ‘You can’t do right for doing wrong’. I remember her saying it to me when I dropped and broke the ash tray into which my grandmother had ground the stubs of her two post-breakfast unfiltered Turkish ‘Abdullah’ cigarettes when I was helping clear the table one morning, and then"
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