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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Good Husband of Zebra

    ...we all have some things we are ashamed of.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Good Husband of Zebra

    But then she reminded herself that there were plenty of people who were afraid of the police, even if they had clear consciences. These were people who had been the victims of bullying when young--bullying by severe teachers, by stronger children; there were so many ways in which people could be crushed. Such people might feat the police in the same way in which they feared all authority.
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Good Husband of Zebra

    ...a prison of put-downs and belittlements.
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Good Husband of Zebra

    She wanted everything back, as we do sometimes in our irrationality and regret; we want it all back.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Good Husband of Zebra

    You are innocent in your heart," she had said to him. "That is the most important thing." And he had thought about that for a few moments before shaking his head and saying, "I would like that to be true, Mma, but it is not. It is what other people think. That is the most important thing.
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Good Husband of Zebra

    your mind like that, then you kept it in good order for a longer period of time, and you put off the day when you would be sitting in the sun, like some of the very old people, not exactly sure which day of the week it was and wondering why the world no longer made the sense that it once did. Yet such people were often happy, he reminded himself, possibly because it did not really matter what day of the week it was anyway.
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  7. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Good Husband of Zebra

    There was no point in telling somebody not to cry, she had always thought; indeed there were times when you should do exactly the opposite, when you should urge people to cry, to start the healing that sometimes only tears can bring. But if there was a place for tears of relief, there might even be a place for tears of pride{.}
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Good Husband of Zebra

    It is so easy to thank people," said Mma Ramotswe, passing the letter over to Mma Makutsi, "and most people don't bother to do it. They don't thank the person who does something for them. They just take it for granted.
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  9. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Good Husband of Zebra

    she found herself looking down on the top of Teenie's head; at a small woollen bobble, in fact, which topped a curious tea-cosy style knitted cap which she was wearing. She looked more closely at it, wondering if she could make out an opening through which a tea pot spout might project; she could not see an opening, but there was a very similar tea cosy in the office, she remembered, and perhaps she or Mma Ramotswe might wear it on really cold days. She imagined how Mma Ramotswe would look in a tea cosy and decided that she would probably look rather good: it might add to her authority, perhaps, in some indefinable way.
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  10. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Good Husband of Zebra

    He would sit down and consider the situation carefully. Not only did this help to identify the solution to the problem, but it also gave him the opportunity to remind himself that things were not really as bad as they seemed; it was all a question of perspective. Sitting down and looking up at the sky for a few minutes--not at any particular part of the sky, but just at the sky in general--at the vast, dizzying, empty sky of Botswana, cut human problems down to size.
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Good Husband of Zebra

    Perhaps trust had to be accompanied by a measure of common sense, and a hefty dose of realism about human nature. But that would need a lot of thinking about, and the tea break did not go on forever.
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Good Husband of Zebra

    But we cannot always choose whose lives will become entangled with our own; these things happen to us, come to us uninvited, and Mma Ramotswe understood that well.
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