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There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries.

There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries.
– Alexander McCall Smith

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  2. Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known – Alexander McCall Smith
  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. The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father. – Alexander McCall Smith
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky. – Alexander McCall Smith
  14. 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
  15. It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to-”or you ignored at your peril. – Alexander McCall Smith
  16. To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way. – Alexander McCall Smith
  17. It’s because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That’s the reason. – Alexander McCall Smith
  18. It was always a mistake, she thought, to dwell on the cause of one’s anger. – Alexander McCall Smith
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. …it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more. – Alexander McCall Smith
  23. …it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more. – Alexander McCall Smith
  24. It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none. – Alexander McCall Smith
  25. Writers are writing in every corner of the globe.Writers are writing, moreover, in rich countries and poor countries alike. – Minae Mizumura
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  27. Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  28. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. – Charles ens
  29. Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs. – Amin Maalouf
  30. perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys – Rainer Maria Rilke
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  32. I found the kingdom of far far away, prince charming would not be so far. – Arzum Uzun
  33. Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts. – Amit Ray
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  35. Because Dad told you he’d be here forever. Because I thought forever was like Mars — far away. – Kwame Alexander
  36. You men have none of you any hearts.”If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough. – Jane Austen
  37. How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far? – Bert Murray
  38. We can hardly get to the very far for the very far we can think of is the far we have not yet reach – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  39. That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true… – Thomas Paine
  40. But females in even the most advanced Muslim countries are simply, by law, not the equal of men. – Bill Maher

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