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

Chinua Achebe

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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Better Brave Coward Live Praise Worth
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Humanity Ourselves Value
The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
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Deep Lizard Philosophy Praise
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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Creation Inspirational People Story Success
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
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
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
Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
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Beyond Blind Cattle Ourselves Warrior
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!
CHINUA ACHEBE

End Government Known Leadership Oneself Problem Worst
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Wisdom
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Compromise Integrity Refusal Test True
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Deep Glorify Greatness Hunt Proverb Story
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Dance Finding Music Self Love Yourself

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

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