School: Island View, Cill an Dísirt (roll number 14196)
- Location:
- Tóin le Gaoith, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cochláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0605, Page 107
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- 1. One ounce of breeding, is better than a ton of feeding.
2. Out by night, sleeping by day and the cows in the cabin, and they roaring for hay.
3. Plough deep, while sluggers sleep and you shall have corn to sell and keep.
4. The longest way around is the shortest way home.
5. He who slings mud is losing ground.
6. Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.
7. To be prepared for war is one of the best ways for preserving peace.
8. You will never miss the want of water until the well runs dry.
9. Never put of until to morrow, what you can do to day.(continues on next page)
