School: Tulach Ruacháin

Location:
Tulrohaun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mary Agnes Smyth
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    Never put off till tomorrow what you can do to day.
    It takes two to make a fight.
    Waste not want not.
    As a man lives so he dies as a tree falls so it lies.
    Better a poor man in your own home than a rich man and a servant in another.
    Don't throw out he dirty water till you get in the clean.
    You never miss the water till the well runs dry.
    Every man's home is his castle.
    Good when gone are valued most.
    Never spend your
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Angela Morley
    Gender
    Female