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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ The House of Unexpected

    Such was human progress; and to think that they were even talking now about filing papers in something called the Cloud. She was not sure how good an idea that would be in a country like Botswana, where the skies were always clear and empty, but that did not seem to be too much of an issue.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ The House of Unexpected

    But emotions and detective work did not always mix; there was something about that in Clovis Andersen's The Principles of Private Detection. What had he said? Emotions have the same effect as a magnet has on a compass…Yes, that was it. The needle swings around in a confusing way and you lose direction.
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ The House of Unexpected

    It is better to tell people good things, Mma-if you can.
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ The House of Unexpected

    Offering a lady a chair was one way of showing that this work was appreciated, and that strength and brute force-at which men generally tended to excel-was not the only thing that counted. Respect for ladies tamed men, and there were many men who were sorely in need of taming; that was well known, said Mma Ramotswe.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ The House of Unexpected

    Families come in different ways... sometimes they are given to you, but sometimes you find them yourself, unexpectedly, as you go through life.
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ The House of Unexpected

    A sleeping partner?" "That's it. I always thought that was an odd expression, Mma. I always thought of a sleeping partner as being somebody who sat with his head on his desk and slept.
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  7. Alexander McCall Smith _ The House of Unexpected

    the names we gave to others, and the things we accused them of, often said more about us than they did about them.
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ The House of Unexpected

    There were three chairs on the verandah-comfortable old wooden chairs that probably dated from Protectorate days. "The British brought chairs," Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni once said. "They took chairs with them wherever they went in the world. And they left the chairs behind when they went home.
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  9. Alexander McCall Smith _ The House of Unexpected

    MMA RAMOTSWE observed speed limits for two reasons. One of these was that she believed that laws were there to be obeyed, and that if everybody drove as fast as they liked there would be mayhem on the roads."
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  10. Alexander McCall Smith _ The House of Unexpected

    Anybody in any employment in Botswana was expected to engage somebody to help in the house. There was nothing extravagant about this; it was, in fact, a form of sharing: if you had a job, you had money, and money needed to be spread around. The people who helped in the house were often paid a pittance and expected to work long hours, but they were desperate for any job and were pleased to take on what came their way.
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ The House of Unexpected

    Cattle had no vote, nor the words to express a view, but their feelings ranked above just about everything else in the country.
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ The House of Unexpected

    My old friend," he began, "is down below, his face we'll see no more, for what he thought was H2O was H2SO4
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