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School: Ballyadams (roll number 894)

Location:
Ballyadams, Co. Laois
Teacher:
P. Ó Bruadair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0836, Page 045

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  1. Proverbs (continued)

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    Never count your chickens before they are hatched.
    Never push a collier when he is going down a hill.
    The greater the storm the nearer the calm.
    Too many cooks spoil the broth.
    You can't serve two masters.
    A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard.
    Experience is a dear school and fools learn in no other.
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  2. Proverbs

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    The best hurler is always on the ditch.
    It's too late to lock the door when the steed is stolen.
    After the storm comes the calm.
    The nearer the bone the sweeter the meat.
    Thinking is one thing and sure is another.
    Castles falling and dunghills rising.
    Every cock crows on his own dunghill.
    You can trick half the world all the time and all the world some of the time.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Uinsionn De Laoighseach
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clopook, Co. Laois