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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 502

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    You can fool all the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all the time, but you cannot fol fool all the people all the time.
    You cannot make a silk purse out iof a sow's ear.
    If silk were woven and flax in gear in spite of art the bárraoileach would appear.
    Always be true to thy work and word.
    Be sure you are right, then go ahead.
    Character is higher than intellect.
    Do kind deeds every day if you can.
    Education is the road to competence.
    Fortune favours efforts well begun.
    Good characters make good citizens.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Susan Farrelly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lisgrea, Co. Cavan