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   Nature binds the meal to the pot stick.
   A new broom sweeps clean, but the old one knows the corners the best.
   Spare the rod and spoil the child.
   Never buy a pig in a poke.
   A wild goose never lays a tame egg.
   Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
   Live and let live.
   There's never a rose with a thorn.
   When poverty goes in at the door love goes out on the window.
   There's none as deaf as those who wont hear.
   An old dog cannot alter his way of barking.
   Patience is better than wisdom.
   Women's tongues are like lambs tails, always wagging.
   Birds of a feather flock together.
   Fine feathers made fine nests.
   Where there is a will there is a way.
   Never sell you hen on a rainy day.
   Never count your chickens before they are hatched.
   A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.
   All is not gold that glitters.
   One time a man stopped his plough to kill a mouse and the horses ran away, and we say, never stop the plough to kill a mouse.
   Never judge anything by appearance alone.
   Great [?] and little wood as the man said when he lipped [?] the saw
   A hand saw is a good thing but not to shave with.

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

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   Mr A. Edgeworth

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   Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan

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   Mr D. Mc Mullen

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   Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan

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   Mr G. Henderson

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   Mullanacre Lower, Co. Cavan

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   Mr J. Taylor

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   Cavanagh, Co. Cavan

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   Mrs Mc Mullen

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   Mucklagh, Co. Cavan