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

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

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  2. All I knew is that sometimes my father was sad. I hated that he was sad. It made me sad too. I didn’t like sad. – Benjamin Alire Senz
  3. Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down-”or up, I suppose-”replacing other people in the process. – Alexander McCall Smith
  4. If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways to do this would be to enjoy her free time. – Alexander McCall Smith
  5. People don’t talk about mercy very much these days-”it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary – Alexander McCall Smith
  6. -¦the world was a vale of tears-”it always had been. – Alexander McCall Smith
  7. Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no. – Alexander McCall Smith
  8. Myth could be as sustaining as reality – sometimes even more so. – Alexander McCall Smith
  9. She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds. – Alexander McCall Smith
  10. A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people – at the most. – Alexander McCall Smith
  11. But he’ll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one’s soul. – Alexander McCall Smith
  12. Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare. – Alexander McCall Smith
  13. Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known – Alexander McCall Smith
  14. International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky. – Alexander McCall Smith
  15. If we treated others with the consideration that one would give to those who only had a few days to live, then we would be kinder, at least. – Alexander McCall Smith
  16. It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to-”or you ignored at your peril. – Alexander McCall Smith
  17. There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries. – Alexander McCall Smith
  18. It’s because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That’s the reason. – Alexander McCall Smith
  19. It was always a mistake, she thought, to dwell on the cause of one’s anger. – Alexander McCall Smith
  20. There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful. – Alexander McCall Smith
  21. we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be. – Alexander McCall Smith
  22. And if you do see any pirates, I don’t want you to pick up any rough manners from them. Do you understand? – Alexander McCall Smith
  23. …it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more. – Alexander McCall Smith
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  25. It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none. – Alexander McCall Smith
  26. Music is the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of nature and the language of the universe. – Debasish Mridha
  27. It is better to lose friends than to lose your reputation, and better to lose riches than to lose your integrity. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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  30. Death is beautiful, part of life… No, it is sad. It’s sad when anyone dies. Even though every single human dies. So it’s really not that sad. – Harris Wittels
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  34. Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious. – Alan Moore
  35. The German language is so sonorous, isn’t it? Beautiful language…the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry. – John Oliver
  36. Micro: Letters create words. Words create language. Language, we are told, permits knowledge & expression. Language is what we are. Are we jailed? – Anthony North
  37. Facing a language you don’t know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you – Munia Khan
  38. Some people use language as a mask. And some want to create designed language that appears to reveal them but does not. – Anne Deavere Smith
  39. Never hurt a woman because she is someone’s mother or will be someone’s mother. Could you hurt your mother? – Debasish Mridha
  40. The seeds of life inside my womb were present at my birth; a gift from mother’s mother, on back to Mother Earth. – Patricia Robin Woodruff

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