School: Cill Críosta

Location:
Kilchreest, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Seán Ó Cléirigh
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    "Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it."
    "Poverty is no disgrace."
    "Too late to spare when all is spent."
    "Experience teaches."
    "Every picture tells a story."
    "Suspicion haunts the guilty mind."
    "Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
    Wise men say smart things and fools repeat them."
    "Every picture tells a story."
    "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men."
    "Consumption has no pity for blue eyes and golden hair."
    "Pride is the bottom of all great mistakes."
    "The nearest to the Altar is the farthest from God."
    "Often a persons mouth broke his nose."
    "There is as good a fish in the sea as ever was caught."
    "Once a man, and twice a child."
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