I don’t like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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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.
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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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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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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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It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
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Just think of the work you’ve set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.
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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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