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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Kalahari Typing School for

    He tilted his hat back slightly, so that he could see the sky more clearly. It was so empty, so dizzying in its height, so unconcerned by the man who was crossing a field beneath it, and thinking as he did so.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Kalahari Typing School for

    ...high heels were always a temptation, but, like all temptations, one paid for them later..."
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Kalahari Typing School for

    This was the difficulty with laws and with legal language: they used language which very few people, apart from lawyers, understood. Penal codes, then, were all very well, but she wondered whether it might not be simpler to rely on something like the Ten Commandments, which, with a bit of modernization, seemed to give a perfectly good set of guidelines for the conduct of one's life...
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Kalahari Typing School for

    They were also shoes that would give the wearer confidence: a person could speak with authority in such shoes.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Kalahari Typing School for

    Be gentle...Many of the people who will come to see you are injured in spirit. They need to talk about things that have hurt them, or about things that they have done. Do not sit in judgement on them, but listen. Just listen.
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Kalahari Typing School for

    ...it made me think of everything I had done. It made me weigh up my life. And it made me want to tie things up, so that next time - and I hope there will not be a next time - the next time I faced death like that, I could think:
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  7. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Kalahari Typing School for

    It was reasonable enough, of course, for people to wish to speak to a man, if that is what they wanted, but that did not mean that a man would be better."
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Kalahari Typing School for

    The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father.
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  9. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Kalahari Typing School for

    She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful.
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  10. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Kalahari Typing School for

    The shoes themselves were light green, with lowish heels {which were very important for comfort and walking; high heels were always a temptation, but, like all temptations, one paid for them later}.
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Kalahari Typing School for

    It was hard to disappear completely in Botswana, where there were fewer than two million people and where people had a healthy curiosity as to who was who and where people had come from. It was very difficult to be anonymous, even in Gaborone, as there would always be neighbours who would want to know exactly what one was doing and who one's people had been.
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Kalahari Typing School for

    Perhaps they could get married in heaven, if he left it too late. That would certainly be cheaper.
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