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“Chicken merry, hawk deh near.”

Danger is often closest during moments of carelessness and celebration.

— Traditional Cayman Islands Wisdom, Cayman Islands

Source: Traditional Jamaican proverb, shared West Indian oral heritage with the Cayman Islands (a dependency of Jamaica until 1962), public-domain oral tradition; documented by the National Library of Jamaica.

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