School: Valleymount
- Location:
- Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Cochláin
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- (continued from previous page)horseshoe nail.9. What is not needed is dear at a farthing.10. The nearest and dearest must part.11. Health is not valued until sickness comes.12. If things were done twice all would be fine.13. Better late than never.14. An ill life an ill end.15. A thread in the day makes a skin in the year.16. Strike iron while it is hot.17. A soft answer turns away wrath.18. A disease known is half cured.19. Have a place for everything and everything in its place.20. Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
- 1. He who digs a pit for others often falls into it himself.2. A lie hurts him most who tells it.3. If you don't want to get floured don't go to the mill.4. Better alone than in bad company
5. Clean whole make poor clothes shine(continues on next page)
