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   your own canoe.
   Dont count the chickens until they are hatched.
   Think twice before you speak once.
   It is never to late to mend.
   Laugh and the world will laugh with you, sigh and you will sigh alone.
   When the sun shines, make the hay.
   If the cuckoo sings on a bare thorn take out your cow and buy some corn.
   A dry May and a dripping June makes the farmer whistle a merry tune.
   Blood is thicker than water.
   Good health is better than wealth.
   Sly water runs deep.
   Great talkers are seldom great doers.
   It is a great horse that never stumbles, and a good woman that never grumbles.
   Silence gives consent.
   Work begun is half done.
   Patience and perseverance would bring a snail to Jerusalem.
   Poverty is no crime.
   Pride will have a fall.
   Hills are green far away.
   If thou dost love life, then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made off.
   If you marry a woman from Glangevlin you marry

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. proverbs (~4,377)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Peter Mc Govern

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Carrowmore, Co. Cavan