Animal Quotes by Alexander McCall Smith

9 Animal quotes by Alexander McCall Smith

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McCall Smith’s animal musings feel like a quiet stroll through a garden, offering gentle humor and kindness in nine tidy reflections.

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Dogs are in on our human silliness; lions are not.

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“most dogs seemed contented enough, and often seemed rather happier than the humans attached to them.”

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“She is a good housemother, that one,” said Mma Ramotswe. Mma Potokwane agreed. “Whenever I hear people say that the country is…

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A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living…

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Baboons take a bit of getting to know but, apparently, once you break the ice, so to speak, they are complex and…

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“People who looked after animals were by and large kind people; they simply practised kindness, unlike those who made much of it.…

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“Why do you ask that dog if he has a soul?” Mma Ramotswe sighed. “It’s very complicated, Rra. You see…Well, you see:…

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“A dog sees no point in dwelling on things that have happened; the important thing is that they are not happening now.…

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“You know the best example of sincerity? The absolute gold standard? Who? Angus pointed to the door, outside which Cyril was waiting…

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“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen…

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“She had not made a lot of money, but she had not made a loss, and she had been happy and entertained. That counted…

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And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often…

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“To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or…

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“Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you…

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“He is a good man, but even a good man can fall for a glamorous woman. That is well known.” “That is very well…

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“And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as…

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“Because laughs never die away entirely,” said Jamie. “At least, if you believe in Marconi.”

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“The trouble with having a conscience, she said to herself, is that it never sleeps.”

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“And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love.…

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“We never realise how transparent we are.”

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“Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, ‘You must not go off and visit…

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“He looked at her in the darkness, at this woman who was everything to him-mother, Africa, wisdom, understanding, good things to eat, pumpkins, chicken,…

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