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An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb


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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.



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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.



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This page presents the quote "An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb". Author of this quote is Chinua Achebe. This quote is about things fall apart important, okonkwo, old woman, dry bones, uneasy,.