School: An Clochar (roll number 14705)
- Location:
- Kilbarron, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mother Philomena
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 212
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- A stitch in time, saves nine.
If you sing before your breakfast, you will cry before your tea in the evening.
The seldomer, the welcome.
There is many slip between the cup and the lip.
He, under a glass roof, should be the last to cast a stone.
Many hands make light work.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Don’t trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you.
“If evils come not,
Then our fears were vain,
And if they come.
Fear only augments the pain.”
Never put off until to-morrow, that which you can do to-day.
Be quick to hear, and slow to speak.
Think twice before you speak once.
Be you to others kind and true, as(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Katie Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
