“If you pick up too much, some of it will fall.”
Overreaching for more than you can hold means losing part of what you already gained.
— Traditional Equatorial Guinea Wisdom, Equatorial Guinea
Source: Traditional Fang proverb, shared Bantu oral tradition across Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, public-domain oral tradition
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