Your emotions will wander like a vagabond when you're indebted. Those happy moments with friends will soon be interrupted with a frowning creditor in your sub-conscious, and all your frenzy will be taken aback.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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