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School: Athboy (C.)

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Athboy, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Brighid, Bean Uí Mhácháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0696, Page 413

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  1. Proverbs (continued)

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    Custom is a second nature.
    Experience teaches fools.
    Fortune favours the brave.
    False friends are worse than open enemies.
    Live horse and you will get grass.
    Jack of all trades and master of none,
    We never know the worth of water until the well is dry.
    A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
    Happy is the wife that married to a motherless son
    For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
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  2. Proverbs

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    The longest way round is the shortest way home.
    Birds of feather flock together.
    Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healty, wealty, and wise.
    Rising late one must gallop all day.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Callaghan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Athboy, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Patrick Callaghan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Athboy, Co. Meath