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Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

Chinua Achebe

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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Government Leadership Politics
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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Cook Greatness Home Known Mom Neighbor
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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Door Hard Time Himself Knock Suffering Worry
Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
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Moral Photograph Physical
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
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Blame Dry Lips Man
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
My weapon is literature.
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Literature Myself Weapon
The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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Beginning Himself Man Pay Visit
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
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
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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Man Prosperity Rule Woman
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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Motivational Shine Stand Sun

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

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