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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café

    When you don't talk about something, then something will talk about itself for you.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café

    She had muttered the words without realising, as unintentionally as she had said co-director. It was a worrying prospect: if one started to say what one was thinking, the results could be very embarrassing. She might think, Oh, there goes Mma Makutsi again-sounding off about the usual things, and were she to say that, the consequences would be awkward. There would be all sorts of misunderstandings … or would they be misunderstandings at all? Truth would break out, rather like the sun coming out from behind a cloud, and we would all understand one another perfectly well, because we would know what we thought of each other.
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café

    And they both had the land about them; the sky that went on forever, it seemed, and was filled with sun and with the air that they all needed, that the cattle needed, that the animals in the Kalahari needed--there was plenty of that; they had Botswana. So everybody had the things that mattered, when you came to think of it...
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café

    You're not angry, Mma?" She shook her head. What was the point of anger? There were occasions when Mma Ramotswe, like all of us, could feel angry, but they were few-and they never lasted long. Anger, Obed Ramotswe had explained to her once, is no more than a salt that we rub into our wounds. She had never forgotten that-along with the things he said about cattle, and Botswana, and the behaviour of the rains.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café

    So plans were useful only in revealing what people wished for. If you wanted to know what they would actually do, then the only way of finding out was by watching them and seeing what they did. Then you would know what they might do in the future-because most people did what they had always done. That,
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café

    Now, as he finished the last of his porridge, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni reminded himself that the one thing he felt certain about when it came to women was that you could never be sure.
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  7. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café

    There are so many people who would love to be able to live in peace, but there are so many others who do not want to let them. Mr."
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café

    All cats are grey in the dark, he had written in one chapter. So remember that how much you can see of a situation depends on how much light you can shine upon it.
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  9. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café

    Lions walk on four legs," observed Mma Makutsi. "Was this man walking on four legs? That can be a big giveaway, Mma.
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  10. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café

    That place is the place we have always been, and if you think that where you have been is where you should be, then why go to another place that you do not know at all and may not be as good as the place you were in before somebody came along and said to you that you must go forwards-which is not what you wanted to do?
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café

    We are all sent the dreams we yearn for, she thought; no matter how unhappy or fraught our waking world may be, we are sent dreams in which we can do the things the heart really wants us to do."
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café

    Anger, Obed Ramotswe had explained to her once, is no more than a salt that we rub into our wounds.
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