Quote#Wisdom
A hasty dog always burns his mouth
Quote bySol Plaatjie · 1876–1932
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Mhudi: An Epic of South African Native Life a Hundred Years Ago (1930), p. 192.
English (original)
A hasty dog always burns his mouth.
— Sol Plaatjie
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