Fear a silent man. He has lips like a drum.
More Beninese Proverbs:
A great affair covers up a small matter.Beninese
What you give you get, ten times over.
Beninese
Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.
Beninese
Silence is an attribute of the dead; he who is alive speaks.
Beninese
Before you ask a man for clothes, look at the clothes that he is wearing.
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