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School: Valleymount

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Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Dll. Ó Cochláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 094

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  1. Proverbs (continued)

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    69. The leaves shall fall, so will us all, when youth and bloom is over.
    70. Happy is the corpse as the rain rain's on, happy is the bride as the sun shines on.
    71. Lazy sheep think their wool heavy.
    72. Children are poor mens riches.
    73. Second thoughts are always best.
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  2. Proverbial Sayings

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    1. Half and hour too soon is better than half a minute too late.
    2. Fair would a cat fish eat, though she is loth to wet her feet.
    3. One swallow makes no summer.
    4. Speak not, rather than speak ill.
    5. The darkest hour is before the dawn.
    6. Every cloud has a silver lining.
    7. Well begun is half done.
    8. For the want of a nail the shoe is lost, for the want of a shoe the horse is lost, for the want of a horse the rider is lost, and all for the want of a
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Perry
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tulfarris, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    Mr Patrick Perry
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    38
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Tulfarris, Co. Wicklow