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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ In the Company of Cheerful

    A large bird, a buzzard perhaps, was circling on high on a current of air, a tiny, soaring point of black, looking for food, of course, as all of us did, in one way or another.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ In the Company of Cheerful

    DOING THE DONKEY WORK
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ In the Company of Cheerful

    You can only wear one pair of shoes at a time," she said. "Rich people are like the rest of us-two feet, ten toes. We are all the same that way.
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ In the Company of Cheerful

    When she had lived in Bobonong the houses seemed perfectly normal to her and the house in which her family lived had seemed quite comfortable. But looking at it with eyes that had seen Gaborone, and the large buildings there, their house had seemed mean and cramped.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ In the Company of Cheerful

    ...I heard him say that he knew that he had been very stupid and that he would not be stupid again. Those were his very words, Mma, and I wrote them down on a piece of paper which we can keep in the office here and take out and wave at him some time in the future if we need to do so.
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ In the Company of Cheerful

    And he readily admitted that he knew nothing about women's clothing, as most men would have to admit; and yet women always claimed to know what clothes were right for a man. There was some injustice here, thought Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, although he was not quite sure how one might pursue the point.
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  7. Alexander McCall Smith _ In the Company of Cheerful

    We are all human, she would say. Men particularly. You must not be ashamed.
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ In the Company of Cheerful

    He is a good, kind man," said Mma Potokwane. "And such men are often too busy. I have noticed that round here too. That man I was talking to just then-one of our groundsmen-he is like that. He is so kind that everybody asks him to do everything. We had a bad-tempered man working here once and he had nothing to do because nobody, apart form myself, of course, had the courage to ask him to do anything.
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  9. Alexander McCall Smith _ In the Company of Cheerful

    this was a consequence of increasing prosperity, which, curiously enough, just seemed to bring out greed and selfishness.
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  10. Alexander McCall Smith _ In the Company of Cheerful

    Of course you could not allow yourself to think too much about these issues. One had to get on and to attend to the day-to-day business of living.
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ In the Company of Cheerful

    If you knew what is was like to be another person, then how could you possibly do something which would cause pain? The problem, though, was that there seemed to be people in whom that imaginative part was just missing. It could be that they were born that way--with something missing from their brains--or it could be that they became like that because they were never taught by their parents to sympathise with others.
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ In the Company of Cheerful

    It was all very well being a modern society, but the advent of prosperity and the growth of the towns was a poisoned cup from which one should drink with the greatest caution. One might have all the things which the modern world offered, but what was the use of these if they destroyed all that which gave you strength and courage and pride in yourself and your country?
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