School: Virginia (C )
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs B. Farrelly
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- (continued from previous page)Once bitten twice shy.
A fool and his money are easily parted.
When rogues fall out honest men come by their own.
An old bird is not caught with chaff.
The devil will always find work for idle hands to do.
Hunger is a good sauce.
A hungry eye see far.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
An empty sack cannot stand.
A straw best shows how the wind blows.
Lie with the lambs and rise with the larks.
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