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Chinua Achebe _ Things Fall Apart
We do not ask for wealth because he that has health and children will also have wealth. We do not pray to have money but to have more kinsmen. We are better than animals because we have kinsmen. An animal rubs its itching flank against a tree, a man asks his kinsman to scratch him.
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Chinua Achebe _ Things Fall Apart
Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. "I have kola," he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest. "Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc. "No, it is for you, I think," and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe.
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Chinua Achebe _ Things Fall Apart
He saw himself and his fathers crowding round their ancestral shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of bygone days..
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Chinua Achebe _ Things Fall Apart
He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
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Chinua Achebe _ Things Fall Apart
When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm."
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Chinua Achebe _ Things Fall Apart
Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan. "It has not always been so," he said. "My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged on the ground through the village until he died. but after a while this custom was stopped because it spoiled the peace which it was meant to preserve.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Chinua Achebe _ Things Fall Apart
If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before.
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Chinua Achebe _ Things Fall Apart
You think you are the greatest sufferer in the world? Do you know that men are sometimes banished for life? Do you know that men sometimes lose all their yams and even their children? I had six wives once. I have none now except that young girl who knows not her right from her left. Do you know how many children I have buried-children I begot in my youth and strength? Twenty-two. I did not hang myself, and I am still alive.
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Chinua Achebe _ Things Fall Apart
Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he has learned to fly without perching.
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Chinua Achebe _ Things Fall Apart
There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.
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Chinua Achebe _ Things Fall Apart
The world is large," said Okonkwo. "I have even heard that in some tribes a man's children belong to his wife and her family.""That cannot be," said Machi. "You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies."
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