"Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society."
― Alexander McCall Smith
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Society
― Alexander McCall Smith
More From Alexander McCall Smith
- "Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age."
- "I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one."
- "My Botswana books are positive, and I’ve never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture of the country. And I think that that is perfectly defensible given that there is so much written about Africa which is entirely negative."
More In Society
- "In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully."― Friedrich Schiller
- "To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty."― Samuel Butler
- "In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."― Karl Marx