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School: Killadangan (roll number 4854)

Location:
Killadangan, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire Bean Uí Domhnaill
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    If death was a thing that money could buy, the rich would live, and the poor would die.
    Dont judge the book by the cover.
    Looking for a needle in a pack of wool.
    There is as good a bird, in the air as ever was caught.
    Time and tide waits for no man.
    When every house is on fire mind your own.
    A small lake will sink a great
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maud Gannon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Streamstown, Co. Mayo