Awa no sa muha makaku dos bes.
“Water will not wet a monkey twice.”
A wise person learns from a painful experience and takes care never to make the same mistake twice.
— Traditional Papiamento Wisdom, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
Source: Traditional Papiamento proverb, Sambumbu (Pater Paul Brenneker Curaçao-Aruba-Bonaire folklore collection), cross-referenced with a Papiamentu-language textbook, public-domain oral tradition
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