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— Chinua Achebe"The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use."
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We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be prepared to become master of the country the first day he lands, or failing in this find everything hostile to him.
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