School: Kilcullen (Convent) (roll number 11806)
- Location:
- Cill Chuillinn, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0780, Page 287
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- Dunghills rise but castle fall.
Fools live but learn not.
A burnt child dreads fire.
Half a loaf is better than no bread.
Stand on a worm and it will turn.
When the messenger is cold the message is cold.
Laugh and the world laughs with you.
Cry and you cry alone.
The long thread of a lazy lailor.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
- Collector
- Anna Coleman
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Kitty Anderson
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Coleman
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Uninvited guests seldom meet a welcome.
Pleasure brought with pain hurts.
The value is in the worth not the number.
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
Change of habit cannot alter nature.
Honesty is the best policy.
They who seek to please everybody please nobody.
A man is knows by the company he keeps.
Covetessness over-reached itself.
A false tale often betrays itself.
A good character is better than good fortune.
If things were done twice all would be wise.
A cat likes fish but doesn't like to wet her feet.
A straight tree may have crooked roots.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Betty Byrne
- Gender
- Female
