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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Minor Adjustment Beauty

    Contemplating this vast human suffering, you might be tempted to shrug your shoulders, but you could not.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Minor Adjustment Beauty

    It seemed an odd thing to say, and yet all of us had a view from somewhere, a view of the world from the perspective of who we were, of what had happened to us, of how we thought about things.
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Minor Adjustment Beauty

    Could you say that your business had expanded if it had gone from owning one teapot to two? Somehow
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Minor Adjustment Beauty

    Do not be afraid of people who lurk in the shadows. Stand up for what you believe in. The people in the shadows are no match for people who are not afraid of light.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Minor Adjustment Beauty

    one should not crow over the defeat even of those who richly deserve to be defeated. That was dangerous, because then you yourself might get what you deserve for revelling in the misfortunes of another.
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Minor Adjustment Beauty

    all of us had a view from somewhere, a view of the world from the perspective of who we were, of what had happened to us, of how we thought about things.
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  7. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Minor Adjustment Beauty

    The voices of the children were pure; their hearts were pure. Some of them had already discovered how hard life could be; others had yet to do so and probably did not fully understand what the world could be.
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Minor Adjustment Beauty

    If you have enemies, then your biggest enemy is yourself. Do you know that, Mma?
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  9. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Minor Adjustment Beauty

    A marriage, she had learned, is seldom what it seems to be on the surface; what appears to be the most equable, well settled of arrangements might be a seething mass of discontent and resentment underneath. And conversely, chaotic and noisy relationships, littered with conflict and infidelity, might prove to be the most durable of unions.
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  10. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Minor Adjustment Beauty

    modern people always appeared to be rushing about doing things, having no time, it seemed, for looking at the sky,
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Minor Adjustment Beauty

    She had brought all of this on herself, and so she had, in a sense, got what she deserved. But, even so, Mma Ramotswe reminded herself, she had a soul like everyone else, and one should not crow over the defeat even of those who richly deserve to be defeated. That was dangerous, because then you yourself might get what you deserve for reveling in the misfortunes of another.
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Minor Adjustment Beauty

    We all had to say goodbye, sooner or later, to those we loved-or they had to say goodbye to us. Those were the only two possibilities that this world allowed. But no matter how much we tried to face up to it, it never became easier.
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