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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Double Comfort Safari Club

    Yes," she agreed, "there are times when I am unhappy and times when I am happy. There are more happy times than unhappy ones, I think.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Double Comfort Safari Club

    The world was an imperfect place--as the events of the last few days had demonstrated--but within that vale of tears there were many sites and times of quietude and contentment, and this place and this moment on the veranda was one such.
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Double Comfort Safari Club

    And she began to weep, dropping her head onto her forearms and rocking backwards and forwards in that curious motion that is perhaps a subconscious attempt to mimic the movement that brings comfort to a tiny baby. That we should in moments of sorrow seek to return to a time when the harshness of the world could be forfended by the simple reassurances of our parents; that we should do that …
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Double Comfort Safari Club

    He could not imagine being interested in that way in somebody like Mma Mateleke; how would one ever get to plant a kiss on such a person if she was always talking? It would be difficult to get one's lips into contact with a mouth that was always opening and shutting to form words; that would surely be very distracting for a man, he thought, and might even discourage him to the point of disinclination, if that was the right word.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Double Comfort Safari Club

    Do not complain about your life. Do not blame others for things that you have brought upon yourself. Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Double Comfort Safari Club

    He had very few criticisms to make of Precious Ramotswe, his wife and founder of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, but if one were to make a list of her faults-which would be a minuscule document, barely visible, indeed, to the naked eye-one would perhaps have to include a tendency {only a slight tendency, of course} to claim that things that she happened to believe were well known.
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  7. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Double Comfort Safari Club

    YOU DO NOT CHANGE PEOPLE BY SHOUTING AT THEM
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Double Comfort Safari Club

    Never be put off by rudeness, Mma," she whispered. "It is the rude person who is rude, not you.
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  9. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Double Comfort Safari Club

    Yet she was determined that when she married she would not forget who she was and who her people were. She would not affect any airs.
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  10. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Double Comfort Safari Club

    Sometimes wickedness prevails.
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Double Comfort Safari Club

    And Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni was at that moment on the verge of an exceptionally important thought, even though its final shape had yet to reveal itself. How much easier it was for Mma Ramotswe-she put things so well, so succinctly, so profoundly, and appeared to do this with such little effort. It was very different if one was a mechanic, and therefore not used to telling people-in the nicest possible way, of course-how to run their lives. Then one had to think quite hard to find just the right words that would make people sit up and say, "But that is very true, Rra!" Or, especially if you were Mma Ramotswe, "But surely that is well known!
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Double Comfort Safari Club

    That was the way the world was; it was composed of a few almost perfect people {ourselves}; then there were a good many people who generally did their best but were not all that perfect {our friends and colleagues}; and finally, there were a few rather nasty ones {our enemies and opponents}.
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