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Si palu grandi kai, ta su tempu a yega.

When a great tree falls, its time has come.

Even the mightiest or most powerful eventually meet their end when their time arrives.

Traditional Papiamento Wisdom, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba

Source: Traditional Papiamento proverb, Sambumbu (Pater Paul Brenneker Curaçao-Aruba-Bonaire folklore collection), public-domain oral tradition

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