Boys and men are the same people, in different clothes. Boys wear short trousers and men wear long trousers. But they are just the same if you take their trousers off.
Alexander McCall Smith...the thought crossed her mind that a bed was really a very strange thing-a human nest, really, where our human fragility made its nightly demands for comfort and cosseting
Alexander McCall SmithTags: mental-comfort-food
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 simple as that. A duty of love. Do you understand what I'm saying to you?
Alexander McCall SmithTags: ruminative-and-wise witty
It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against this.
Alexander McCall SmithTags: middle-age spinster guard-against sharp-tongue
Isabel observed an etiquette of the telephone: a call before eight in the morning was an emergency; between eight and nine it was an intrusion; thereafter calls could be made until ten in the evening, although anything after nine-thirty required an apology for the disturbance. After ten one was into emergency time again.
Alexander McCall SmithTags: calls telephone-calls telephone-etiquette
We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors, people we deal with, and so on.
Alexander McCall SmithTags: morality neighbors moral-responsibility
I'd like to be tidy, said Hen, I try, but I guess you can't be what you aren't.
Alexander McCall SmithTags: neatness what-you-are tidy
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.
Alexander McCall SmithShe had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and not to hide facts which could give a different complexion to a matter, but on subsequent thought she had revised her position.
Although she still believed that one should be frank in answers to questions, this duty arose only where there was an obligation, based on a reasonable expectation, to make a full disclosure. There was no duty to reveal everything in response to a casual question by one who had no right to the information.
Tags: truth questions lying information facts answers questions-and-answers disclosure
There was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe -- the only lady private detective in Botwana -- brewed tea. And three mugs -- one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need?
Alexander McCall SmithTags: tea
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