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School: Carrigabruise

Location:
Carrigabruse, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
P. Mc Enrae
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0999, Page 207

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  1. Local Proverbs (continued)

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    "A used key never rusts"
    "It is not on one foot St Patrick came to Ireland"
    "Have a thing or want it."
    "You can't have your cake and eat it too."
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  2. Local Proverbs

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    "What is worth doing atall is worth doing well."
    "Where there is a will, there is a way."
    "You cannot take the book by the cover."
    "He who sows in Spring reaps in Autumn."
    "There is no help or cure against death."
    "Every cat after his kind."
    "People meet by the hills
    mountains never do."
    "It is difficult to cut wool off a goat."
    "The thing does not pertain to you do
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peter Lynch
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrigabruse, Co. Cavan