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   A borrowed horse has hard hoofs. The cow with the dirty tail bellows the loudest. First and second go alike but the third throw carries the bite. A man is a man if he were only inside in a matchbox. Strife is better than loneliness. After a gatherer comes a scatterer. At the working man's door hunger looks in but dare not enter. Silks and satins often put out the kitchen fire. Plough deep while sluggards sleep and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. He that riseth late must trat all day. Taste before you eat. Time and patience would carry a snail to America. A sleeping fox catches no fowl. A closed mouth catches no flies. A small leak sinks a big ship. 'Tis hard for an empty sack to stand upright. Lost time is never found again.

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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. proverbs (~4,377)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Elizabeth O' Connor

   Gender

   Female

   Collector

   Kathleen Fitzgerald

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Daniel Finucane

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cork, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Denis Hanrahan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   47