“A word once spoken cannot be called back, just as an arrow once loosed cannot be recalled.”
Speak carefully, because words and actions have consequences that cannot be undone.
— Traditional Laos Wisdom, Laos
Source: Traditional Lao proverb, shared with the wider Lao-Tai (Lao-Isan-Thai) linguistic region, public-domain oral tradition
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