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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.

Chinua Achebe

A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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Blame Dry Lips Man
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
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
The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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Dance Singing World
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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Animal Lying Philosophy
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
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
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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Dance Mask Place Stand World Yourself
Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
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Hands Literature Ourselves Reality
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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Destroy Language Man Old Repair Talk Togetherness Young
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
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.
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Beginning Identify People Removal Situation Story Yourself
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
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

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.

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