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The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13) QUOTES

The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13) QUOTES

1 " Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you to point out that they are wrong, even when they are. That is the way things are, Mma--it just is. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

2 " ...they are dazzled by all the money that they are being offered. That is what money does, Mma Ramotswe—you must have seen that. Sometime we need to look the other way when people put money in front of our noses. We have to look at the other things we can see so the money doesn't hide them. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

3 " They should get another lawyer,” he said. “Surely there are better people around. That man with the big nose—you know the one—they say that he’s very good. The judges can’t take their eyes off his nose, and so they always decide in his favour. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

4 " When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

5 " And food made with love, she thought, tasted better-everybody knew that. It just did. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

6 " There are some people who should not be allowed on the road. Maybe they shouldn't even be allowed to walk anywhere, either. Maybe we should hang a large sign around their neck saying 'Very Dangerous', or 'No Sense', or something like that. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

7 " Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, ‘You must not go off and visit library ladies’? "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

8 " People caused harm to others because they were of malevolent disposition, that was shear human wickedness. something that has always existed and always would.Some people it seemed derived pleasure from inflicting suffering on others... "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

9 " You did not squeeze hands when you lied; it could not be done. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

10 " In fact, none of us knows how he ever managed to get his LLB in the first place. Maybe they’re putting law degrees in cornflakes boxes these days. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

11 " There were plenty of people who did not really believe in God, but who wanted to believe in him, and said that they did. Some people said that these people were foolish, that they were hypocritical, but Mma Ramotswe was not so sure about that. If something, or somebody, could help you to get through life, to lead a life that was good and purposeful, did it matter all that much if that thing or that person did not exist? She thought it did not—not in the slightest bit. BY "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

12 " I promise to share all my worldly goods-including letters, parcels and other items of correspondence, opened or unopened. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

13 " He will be a small man inside," said Mma Ramotswe. "He will feel small and unimportant. That is why he needs to put ladies down, Mma. Men who are big inside never feel the need to do that. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

14 " Of course not,” said Mma Makutsi. “There is nothing to be ashamed of in drinking one hundred cups of tea a week, Mma. Which is …” She paused again. “More than five thousand cups of tea a year, Mma. That is very impressive.” “Well, there you are, Mma Makutsi. Those are the figures. You cannot argue with figures, can you?” Mma Makutsi looked thoughtful. “And ours is just a small business. We use all that red bush tea for you and all that ordinary tea for me, and we are just a tiny business. Imagine how much tea the Standard Bank drinks. Imagine all their tea, Mma. Just think of it. Or the Government. All those government people in their offices drinking tea.” “It is a miracle that there is any tea left for us, Mma,” said Mma Ramotswe. “After the Government and the banks and people like that have taken all the tea they need, it is a miracle that there is any tea left for people like you and me, Mma, the tea-drinking public.” “You’re right, Mma Ramotswe. It is a miracle. The miracle of the tea.” “A good miracle, Mma Makutsi.” “A very good miracle, Mma Ramotswe. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

15 " The sound of the kettle boiling was in itself the sound of normality, of reason, the sound of a fight back against the sadness of things. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

16 " Do not take on a traditionally built person unless you are prepared for a heavyweight bout. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

17 " There are awkward moments from which one can retreat, and awkward moments from which there is no escape. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

18 " But then men do not see things the same way we do, she thought. They have different eyes. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

19 " All that I know is that he is sad in his heart...that is the place where his sadness is. Right there. And I do not think that is ever very easy to deal with sadness in that part of the body. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)

20 " We should all have a tree in our childhood...a tree one might explore, a tree from which one might learn how to fall. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #13)