School: Baile na Mín (roll number 14925)
- Location:
- Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0238, Page 436
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A Shut mouth catches no flies.
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Don't lose a sheep for a ha'porth of tar.
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One foolish person can ask more questions than five wise men could answer.
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The darkest hour is before the dawn.
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Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
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Don't look for wool in a goat house.
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Its a long lane that has no turning.
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One swallow never makes a summer.
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Quenched coals are easy to kindle.
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Like father like son.
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It is not from the wind he took it.
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What comes by nature costs nothing.
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What's bred in the marrow comes out through the bone.
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Fool me once - shame on you. Fool me twice - shame on me.
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It's a bad wind that blows nobody good.
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You can't have your loaf and eat it.
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Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
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Strength is no burden.
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Learning is no load.
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Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't know.(continues on next page)
