School: Breaffy (roll number 15555)
- Location:
- Breaghwy, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0147, Page 311
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- (continued from previous page)A good beginning means a good finishing.
The person who has least to say is always finished with his work first.
If a person is burned once he will be more careful in the future.
Don't refer to things you are getting in the future.
Speak to the devil and he shall obey.
Don't push a man when he is coming down a hill
Quenched coals are easily kindled.
The less said the easier mended.
The wild-geese think that there is no place like the bog.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Martin Crean
- Gender
- Male
