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    (1) A cat likes fish but does not like to wet her own feet.
    (2) A straight tree may have crooked roots
    (3) Dead with tea and dead without it
    (4) Keep not what is not your own.
    (5) Keep nothing except you want it.
    (6) God never shuts one door but he opens another.
    (7) Save while you may no morning sun lasts a whole day.
    (8) Always taking out of the meal bag and not putting to it, soon comes to the bottom.
    (9) He who fights and run away,
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Bell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Glyn, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mr J. Bell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40
    Address
    Glyn, Co. Offaly