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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ Tea Time for the Traditionally

    I am grateful to you for being who you are: for standing up for ladies with large glasses and a bad skin and for everybody else who has had to battle to get where they have got. And most of all I am grateful to you for being my friend, Mma; I am grateful to you for that. That is the best thing that anybody can be to anybody else--a friend.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ Tea Time for the Traditionally

    When we dismiss or deny the hopes of others, she thought, we forget that they, like us, have only one chance in this life.
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ Tea Time for the Traditionally

    Everybody who consulted her was, in their way, hurting--even this rich man with his big Mercedes-Benz and his expensive cuff-links. Human hurt was like lightning; it did not choose its targets, but struck, with rough equality and little regard to position, achievement, or moral desert.
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ Tea Time for the Traditionally

    Her country had never been aggressive, had never espoused violence, had never taken sides in the squabbles of others. She wondered how people could sleep if they knew that somebody, in their name, was dropping bombs on other people or breaking into their homes and taking them away somewhere. Why did they do it? Why was it necessary to kill and maim other people when the other people would be just the same as yourself--people who wanted to live with their families and go to work in the morning and have enough to eat a the end of the day? That was not much to ask of the world, even if for many the world could not grant even that small request.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ Tea Time for the Traditionally

    ...just like the affairs of the adult world--complicated rules and a history.
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ Tea Time for the Traditionally

    It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. "I'll take the shoes," she said firmly."
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  7. Alexander McCall Smith _ Tea Time for the Traditionally

    That is important," said Mma Makutsi from behind her desk. "One does not want a lady who talks too much.
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ Tea Time for the Traditionally

    It was another of Mma Makutsi's odd statements-utterly unfounded in fact, Mma Ramotswe suspected, but not a point that she wished to argue. As far as she was concerned, if a chair was empty, then anybody should be welcome to sit in it. We should share our chairs, she felt. Maybe that was the real problem with the modern world-not enough of us were prepared to share our chairs.
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  9. Alexander McCall Smith _ Tea Time for the Traditionally

    Yes, but not in chairs that don't belong to us," countered Mma Makutsi. "That's the trouble with this country, Mma-there are too many people sitting down in other people's chairs."
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  10. Alexander McCall Smith _ Tea Time for the Traditionally

    He is a good man, but even a good man can fall for a glamorous woman. That is well known." "That is very well known," agreed Mma Ramotswe. "Look at Adam. Look how he fell for Eve." "Just because she had no clothes on, he fell for her," said Mma Makutsi. "That sometimes helps," said Mma Ramotswe.
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ Tea Time for the Traditionally

    We were tiny creatures, really; tiny and afraid, trying to hold our place on the little platform that was our earth. So while the world about us might seem so solid, so permanent, it was not really. We were all at the mercy of chance, no matter how confident we felt, hostages to our own human frailty.
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ Tea Time for the Traditionally

    When there is nothing you can do to stop the march of adverse events, then the best thing, she felt, was to get on with life and not to worry.
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