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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Limpopo Academy of Private

    ...they are dazzled by all the money that they are being offered. That is what money does, Mma Ramotswe-you must have seen that. Sometime we need to look the other way when people put money in front of our noses. We have to look at the other things we can see so the money doesn't hide them.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Limpopo Academy of Private

    We should all have a tree in our childhood...a tree one might explore, a tree from which one might learn how to fall.
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Limpopo Academy of Private

    All that I know is that he is sad in his heart...that is the place where his sadness is. Right there. And I do not think that is ever very easy to deal with sadness in that part of the body.
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Limpopo Academy of Private

    But then men do not see things the same way we do, she thought. They have different eyes.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Limpopo Academy of Private

    There are awkward moments from which one can retreat, and awkward moments from which there is no escape.
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Limpopo Academy of Private

    Do not take on a traditionally built person unless you are prepared for a heavyweight bout.
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  7. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Limpopo Academy of Private

    The sound of the kettle boiling was in itself the sound of normality, of reason, the sound of a fight back against the sadness of things.
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Limpopo Academy of Private

    On the wall of this yard there was the wording, painted in high letters: Reliable Autos. We get you there."Get you where?" asked Fanwell. Chobie smiled. "Where you want to get. That's where everybody's heading, after all. To where they want to get.
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  9. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Limpopo Academy of Private

    Of course not," said Mma Makutsi. "There is nothing to be ashamed of in drinking one hundred cups of tea a week, Mma. Which is …" She paused again. "More than five thousand cups of tea a year, Mma. That is very impressive." "Well, there you are, Mma Makutsi. Those are the figures. You cannot argue with figures, can you?" Mma Makutsi looked thoughtful. "And ours is just a small business. We use all that red bush tea for you and all that ordinary tea for me, and we are just a tiny business. Imagine how much tea the Standard Bank drinks. Imagine all their tea, Mma. Just think of it. Or the Government. All those government people in their offices drinking tea." "It is a miracle that there is any tea left for us, Mma," said Mma Ramotswe. "After the Government and the banks and people like that have taken all the tea they need, it is a miracle that there is any tea left for people like you and me, Mma, the tea-drinking public." "You're right, Mma Ramotswe. It is a miracle. The miracle of the tea." "A good miracle, Mma Makutsi." "A very good miracle, Mma Ramotswe.
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  10. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Limpopo Academy of Private

    He will be a small man inside," said Mma Ramotswe. "He will feel small and unimportant. That is why he needs to put ladies down, Mma. Men who are big inside never feel the need to do that.
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Limpopo Academy of Private

    I promise to share all my worldly goods-including letters, parcels and other items of correspondence, opened or unopened.
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Limpopo Academy of Private

    There were plenty of people who did not really believe in God, but who wanted to believe in him, and said that they did. Some people said that these people were foolish, that they were hypocritical, but Mma Ramotswe was not so sure about that. If something, or somebody, could help you to get through life, to lead a life that was good and purposeful, did it matter all that much if that thing or that person did not exist? She thought it did not-not in the slightest bit. BY"
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