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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Woman Who Walked in

    Do not allow the profession of which you are a member to induce you to take a bleak view of humanity. You will encounter all sorts of bad behavior but do not judge everybody by the standards of the lowest. If you
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Woman Who Walked in

    Time and time again people showed better qualities than we might dare to hope for, sometimes against all expectation.
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Woman Who Walked in

    Mma Makutsi was unconvinced. "Where there is smoke there's fire, Mma. I have always said that." Mma Ramotswe could not let that pass. "But what does Clovis Andersen say in The Principles of Private Detection, Mma? Does he not say that you must be very careful to decide where the smoke is coming from? Smoke can drift, Mma. Those were his exact words, I think.
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Woman Who Walked in

    What they would see first would be a darkening of the sky in the east-a change from empty blue to a grey-white that would gradually shade into a heavy, inky purple. And then there would be a wind-the wind that preceded a storm and carried the smell of rain on its breath.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Woman Who Walked in

    go badly wrong. Sex, she thought. That is what is going to go wrong here. And she was right. "This woman," Mma Gabane Gabane went on, "this foolish, foolish woman met a young man who worked in the same office. He wasn't an accountant-nothing like that-he was a trainee, Mma Ramotswe, just a trainee. He was eighteen." There was a sharp intake of breath from Mma Phumele, who looked at Mma Ramotswe to gauge her reaction. She would be every bit as shocked as the rest of them, she imagined. And Mma Ramotswe was shocked.
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Woman Who Walked in

    There are broad shoulders, the saying went, even where there are no broad shoulders.
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  7. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Woman Who Walked in

    …photographs on a wall were there for people to see and to examine if interested; an album is a different thing…
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Woman Who Walked in

    Why not imagine a talk with a pumpkin? Why not imagine going off for a drive with a friendly pumpkin, a companion who would not, after all, answer back; who would agree with everything you said, and would at the end of the day appear on your plate as a final gesture of friendship?
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  9. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Woman Who Walked in

    If a person acts out of character, then there's one thing you can be sure of: there is something wrong. I have seen this so many times I have lost count.
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  10. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Woman Who Walked in

    She was proud of her build, which was in accordance with the old Botswana ideas of beauty, and she would not pander to the modern idea of slenderness. That was an importation from elsewhere, and it was simply wrong. How could a very thin woman do all the things that women needed to do: to carry children on their backs, to pound maize into flour out at the lands or the cattle post, to cart around the things of the household-the pots and pans and buckets of water? And how could a thin woman comfort a man? It would be very awkward for a man to share his bed with a person who was all angles and bone, whereas a traditionally built lady would be like an extra pillow on which a man coming home tired from his work might rest his weary head. To do all that you needed a bit of bulk, and thin people simply did not have that.
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Woman Who Walked in

    Putting Mr. Polopetsi in charge of the investigation is like putting a rabbit in charge of the airport.
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Woman Who Walked in

    There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful.
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