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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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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because…
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something…
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when…
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more…
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,…
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or…
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you…
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing…

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Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs… — Lord Byron
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes. — Thomas Brooks
The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit. — Chinua Achebe
You may think it odd that there were three men to look after one tiny station, but the people who ran the… — Joan Aiken
Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it… — Samuel Logan Brengle
Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain--which is to say, all of… — Bill Bryson
Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat… — W. S. Gilbert
Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be… — Billy Graham
Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much. — Henry Ward Beecher
When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you… — Dale Carnegie
Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at? — W. S. Gilbert
To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know… — Saint Augustine

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