School: Cill Ruadháin (roll number 7088)
- Location:
- Lisgarode, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Labhrás Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0533, Page 263
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- Count your chickens before they are hatched, any fool can count them afterwards.
A soft answer turns away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.
A contented mind is a blessing kind and a merry heart is a purse well lined.
The deed is everything but the fame is nothing.
Never use what is not your own and never buy what you can't pay for.
Be just before you are generous.
Kind words are the music of the world.
Sorrow and love go side by side.
A little bit of hope makes a rainy day look gay.
Old Mrs Terrier said to her put one day, "in all lifes adventures keep your tail up".
Beauty of character is far better than beauty of face.
Lazy people were never meant to reach the top of the ladder, there would be no place for them to sit down.
A man wants little here below and is not hard to please, but a woman bless her little heart wants everything she sees
You will never the world with safety(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy Grace
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Graigue Upper, Co. Tipperary
