If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
CHINUA ACHEBEPeople 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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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
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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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A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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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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My weapon is literature.
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The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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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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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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