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There is no story that is not true.

Chinua Achebe

Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor.
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Audience Beginning Factor Praying Writing
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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Charity Forget Goodness Lying Necessary Reality Solution Work
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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Beginning Education Land Learning Myself People
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
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Finding Neck People Time Water Yourself
No man however great is greater than his people.
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Greatness Leadership Man People Position Value
It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.
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Apparent Important Ourselves Quite Value
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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Different Kind Language Price Submission World
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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Angry Collapse Quit Reason Therapy Trouble
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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Fake Myself Religion Story Truth
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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Better Brave Coward Live Praise Worth

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