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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

Chinua Achebe

You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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Change Learning Myself
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
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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Himself Humanity Moral Practical Stay Value
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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Dance Finding Music Self Love Yourself
Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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Dance Hurry Lame Pleasure
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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Friendship Goat Hen Stomach
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Myself Philosophy Teaching
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
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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Government Leadership Politics
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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Design Embrace Generation History Performance Recognition Task
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Himself Man Worth
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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Mouth Old Ourselves People Sweet

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

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