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Alexander McCall Smith _ Precious and Grace
And that perhaps part of the secret of leading a life in which you would not always be worrying about things, or complaining about them, was to accept that there were people who just saw things differently from you and always would. Once you understood that, then you could accept the people themselves as they were and not try to change them. What was even more important, perhaps, was that you could love those people who looked at things so differently, because you realised that they were not trying to make life hard for you by being what they were, but were simply doing their best. Then, when you started to love them, love would do the work that it always did and it would begin to transform them and then they would end up seeing things in the same way that you did.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Precious and Grace
Saying sorry does not make you look small-it makes you look big." "I think so too," said Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni. "But some people are small inside, and if you're small inside, you can't be big outside. It just won't come to you.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Precious and Grace
These days people seemed to suggest that you should talk about everything, even those things that people never talked about in the past, but did this make life any easier? She was not sure. In fact, she thought there were occasions on which talking about distressing things merely kept those things alive, whereas not talking about them, consigning them to the past, forgetting them, allowed one to think about things that were positive, things that made the world a bit better.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Precious and Grace
I think this bandage is not needed," said Mma Ramotswe, bending down to remove it. "Hospitals feel they have to put a bandage on anybody who goes there-just in case. Sometimes you get a bandage even if you are just visiting somebody.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Precious and Grace
of the large numbers of people who applied for jobs, and she wondered how employers managed to select from such a wide field. Was everyone interviewed? And even if that happened, how did one distinguish one applicant from another when they all probably had roughly the same qualifications?
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Precious and Grace
She is a good housemother, that one," said Mma Ramotswe. Mma Potokwane agreed. "Whenever I hear people say that the country is going to the dogs-and there are such people, you know, Mma…
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Precious and Grace
people are very slow to say sorry. I
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Precious and Grace
people in Canada talk about feeling solitude? They sometimes call it a country of solitudes.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Precious and Grace
Trust your nose, but make sure it's pointing in the right direction.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Precious and Grace
The country must be full of liars," she continued. "There must be liars around every corner. Liars hiding behind every bush. Liars just waiting to tell lies about something. Unrepentant liars. Old liars, young liars; perhaps even babies whose first word is a lie. Perhaps
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Precious and Grace
Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni," she asked, "do you think that our souls grow as we get older?" He did not answer immediately, but when he did, she thought his answer quite perfect. "Yes," he said. "Our souls get wider. They grow like the branches of a tree-growing outwards. And
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Precious and Grace
Why do you ask that dog if he has a soul?" Mma Ramotswe sighed. "It's very complicated, Rra. You see…Well, you see: Mma Makutsi said dogs were just meat inside. Those were her actual words." "She's wrong," he said. "I think so. I
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