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Alexander McCall Smith _ Tears of the Giraffe
from that, there was nothing.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Tears of the Giraffe
It was inconsiderate not to have a gardener if, like Dr Ranta, you were in a well-paid white-collar job. It was a social duty to employ domestic staff, who were readily available and desperate for work. Wages were low – unconscionably so, thought Mma Ramotswe – but at least the system created jobs. If everybody with a job had a maid, then that was food going into the mouths of the maids and their children. If everybody did their own housework and tended their own gardens, then what were the people who were maids and gardeners to do?"
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Tears of the Giraffe
The night is a very bad time for questions to which there are no answers." Mr Badule looked at her. "You are very right, my sister. There is
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Tears of the Giraffe
Places had echoes- and if one were sensitive, one might just pick up some resonance from the past, some feeling for what had happened.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Tears of the Giraffe
Mma Ramoswe shaded her eyes with a hand."All that work," she mused. "And now this."Mma Potsane shrugged her shoulders. "But that is always true, Mma," she said. "Even Gaborone. Look at all those buildings. How do we know that Gaborone will still be there in fifty years' time? Have the ants not got their plans for Gaborone as well?"Mma Ramotswe smiled. It was a good way of putting it. All our human endeavors are like that, she reflected, and it is only because we are too ignorant to realize it, or are too forgetful to remember it, that we have the confidence to build something that is meant to last.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Tears of the Giraffe
People were forever digging up events that had taken place a long time ago. And what was the point in doing this if the effect was merely to poison the present? There were many wrongs in the past, but did it help to keep bringing them up and giving them a fresh airing?
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Tears of the Giraffe
...as she made her way back to the tiny white van she listened to her own breathing and felt her own heart thumping wildly. She had no idea where she had found the courage, but it had been there, like the water at the bottom of a disused quarry--unfathomably deep.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Tears of the Giraffe
But remember, that for every cheating wife in Botswana, there are five hundred and fifty cheating husbands."Mma Makutsi whistled. "That is an amazing figure," she said. "Where did you read that?""Nowhere," chuckled Mma Ramotswe. "I made it up. But that doesn't stop it from being true.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Tears of the Giraffe
All our human endeavours are like that, she reflected, and it is only because we are too ignorant to realize it, or are too forgetful to remember it, that we have the confidence to build something that is meant to last.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Tears of the Giraffe
Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Tears of the Giraffe
I am glad you are pleased," said Mma Ramotswe. "You have broken the glass ceiling that stops secretaries from reaching their full potential."Mma Makutsi looked up, as if to search for the ceiling that she had broken. There were only the familiar ceiling boards, fly-tracked and buckling from the heat. But the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel itself could not at that moment have been more glorious in her eyes, more filled with hope and joy.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Tears of the Giraffe
Perhaps one day she would find a place where she would stay. That would be good. To know that the place you were in was your own place-where you should be.
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