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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.

Chinua Achebe

A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
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. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself.
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Description Finding Myself Need Teaching
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
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Confirm Failure Head People See
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
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance.
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Dance Important See Yourself
In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
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Deal Fools Goodness Known Man Peace Thinking Yourself
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
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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Greatness Imagination Man Privilege Yourself
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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Audience Beginning Factor Praying Writing
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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Coward Fight Run Time War
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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Creation History Meaning Storyteller Survival
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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Animal Frog Known Life See Yourself
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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Character Fear Man Nature Oneself Shout
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay

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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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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