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School: Millín, Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 16329)

Location:
Milleenduff, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Liam Diolún
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    “There isn’t a Saturday in the year that the sun don’t shine.”
    “The bread is not thought of when it is gone.”
    “A glutton lives to eat a wise man eats to live.”
    “He was as cantankerous as a hatching hen.”
    “A woman’s mind and the weather are the same.”
    “As conceited as a peacock that would be admiring herself before a mirror.”
    “The heaviest ear bends its head the lowest.”
    “Better are small fish than an empty dish.”
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Collins
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Milleenduff, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Miss Bridie Dillon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Milleenduff, Co. Cork