School: Curraghmore (roll number 12714)
- Location:
- Curraghmore, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Mc Donagh
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- 1. A glutton lives to eat, a wise man eats to live.2. Children and fools should not handle sharp-edged tools.3. Debt is the worst kind of poverty.4. He that has a wish for his supper may go to bed hungry.5. He who gives way to anger punishes himself for the fault of another.6. Kindle the dry sticks, the green ones will catch.7. Leave your jest when it is at the best.8. Of small account is the fly until it gets into the eye.9. Plough deep while sluggards sleep and you will have corn to sell and to keep.10. There is no shame in refusing him that has no shame asking.11. The best throw of a dice is to throw it away.12. Promises may get friends but it is(continues on next page)
