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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ The No. 1 Ladies' Detective

    How sorry she felt for white people, who couldn't do any of this, and who were always dashing around and worrying themselves over things that were going to happen anyway. What use was it having all that money if you could never sit still or just watch your cattle eating grass? None, in her view; none at all, and yet they did not know it. Every so often you met a white person
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ The No. 1 Ladies' Detective

    The sun went, and it was dark. He sat beside her in the comfortable darkness and they listened, contentedly, to the sounds of Africa settling down for the night. A dog barked somewhere; a car engine raced and then died away; there was a touch of wind, warm dusty wind, redolent of thorn trees.
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ The No. 1 Ladies' Detective

    He also spends a lot of my money on vitamin pills and biltong.
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ The No. 1 Ladies' Detective

    No sailor could be lonelier than a man standing in the middle of our land, with the miles and miles of blue about him.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ The No. 1 Ladies' Detective

    And God was here anyway, before the missionaries came. We called him by a different name, then, and he did not live over at the Jews' place; he lived here in Africa, in the rocks, in the sky, in places where we knew he liked to be.
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ The No. 1 Ladies' Detective

    love was a form of blindness that closed the eyes to the most glaring faults. You could love a murderer, and simply not believe that your lover would do so much as crush a tick, let alone kill somebody. There would be no point trying to dissuade her.
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  7. Alexander McCall Smith _ The No. 1 Ladies' Detective

    there was any number of men like that, waiting for an attractive girl that they could latch on to and whose life they could slowly destroy.
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ The No. 1 Ladies' Detective

    That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want.
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  9. Alexander McCall Smith _ The No. 1 Ladies' Detective

    and took us to the end of long, dark tunnels, which were filled with green rock and dust. My job was to load rock after it had been blasted, and I did this for seven hours a day. I grew
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  10. Alexander McCall Smith _ The No. 1 Ladies' Detective

    Boys, men," she said. "They're all the same. They think that this thing is something special and they're all so proud of it. They do not know how ridiculous it is.
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ The No. 1 Ladies' Detective

    We are the ones who first ploughed the earth when Modise {God} made it," ran an old Setswana poem. "We were the ones who made the food. We are the ones who look after the men when they are little boys, when they are young men, and when they are old and about to die. We are always there. But we are just women, and nobody sees us.
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ The No. 1 Ladies' Detective

    ...and with it would come that wonderful, unmistakable smell of rain, that smell of dust and water meeting that lingered for a few seconds in the nostrils and then was gone, and would be missed, sometimes for months, before the next time that it caught you and made you stop and say to the person with you, any person: That is the smell of rain, there, right now.
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