“Quatti buy chubble, hunjed poun’ cyaan pay farri.”

Little blunders can cause us to find ourselves in situations so complex that we cannot extricate ourselves.

A penny-halfpenny (1 1/2d) buys trouble, one hundred pounds (£100) cannot pay for it.

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Traditional Jamaican proverb