The body pays for a slip of the foot, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.
More Malawian Proverbs:
When it's warm the pea loses its pod.Malawian
As if it weren't bad enough to fall, the ladder lands on top of you.
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The body is killed by the mouth.
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It is the fate of the coconut husk to float, for the stone to sink.
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Where there is sugar, there are mice.
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Don't think back on someone whose name you forgot, he is probably someone else by now.
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