El que mucho abarca, poco aprieta.
“He who embraces too much, holds little.”
Taking on too many things at once means you do none of them well.
— Traditional Colombia Wisdom, Colombia
Source: Traditional Colombian/Spanish proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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