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Alexander McCall Smith

"That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectations."

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A.E. Samaan

"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."

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A.E. Samaan

"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."

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A.E. Samaan

"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

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A.E. Samaan

"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."

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A.E. Samaan

"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."

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A.E. Samaan

"Time is a precious gift."

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A.E. Samaan

"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

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A.E. Samaan

"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

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A.E. Samaan

"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."

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A.E. Samaan

"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectations."

Wisdom

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Alexander McCall Smith
"The ordinary people of Africa tended not to have room in their hearts for hatred. They were sometimes foolish, like people anywhere, but they did not bear grudges, as Mr Mandela had shown the world."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"In an earlier age, it might have been possible to believe that goodness would prevail over pride, but not anymore. The proud could be proud with impunity, because there was nobody to contradict him in his pride and because narcissism was no longer considered a vice. That was what the whole cult of celebrity was about, she thought; and we fAated these people and fed their vanity."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"There were some people, it seemed, who were incapable of being pleasant about anything. Of course, the cars that such people drove tended to be difficult as well. Nice cars have nice drivers; bad cars have bad drivers. A person's gearbox revealed everything that you could want to know about that person, thought Mr J.L.B. Matekoni."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"It was a good thing to be an African. There were terrible things that happened in Africa, things that brought shame and despair when one thought about them, but that was not all there was in Africa. However great the suffering of the people of Africa, however harrowing the cruelty and chaos brought about by soldiers-small boys with guns, really-there was still so much in Africa from which one could take real pride. There was the kindness, for example, and the ability to smile, and the art and the music."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"And the memory made her humble, for we should not forget what it is to be young and to have ideas and attitudes that may later seem so fanciful."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women."

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