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No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.

Chinua Achebe

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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Animal Frog Known Life See Yourself
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
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Adventure Kindness Myself Way
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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Art Conversation Eat Word
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Blame Dry Lips Man
The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
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Earth Existence Ideal Myself Place
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
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Death Ground Library Man Old
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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Deep Glorify Greatness Hunt Proverb Story
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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Growth Life Old People Thinking
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
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Expression Feeling Story Talk
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
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Enough Oneself Strength Tradition

No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.

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