School: Dillonsbridge (roll number 8501)
- Location:
- Philpotstown, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: A.B. Ní Chumhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0687, Page 020
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- Proverbs.
1. What is in mind when you are sober comes out when you are drunk.
2. Any one that is too hot gets a cooling.
3. One good turn deserves another.
4. He that expects nothing is never disappointed.
5. It is a long road that has not a turn in it.
6. God is slow but sure.
7. A good heart is never proud.
8. It takes two to make a quarrel.
9. It is hard to bleed a stone.
10. Anything that is worth doing is worth doing right.
11. Cruelty seldom needs courage.
12. It is a bad hen that cannot scratch for herself.
13. Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride to hell.
14. It is a bad wind that does not blow someone good.
15. When it rains it pours.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary T. Kierans
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lios Muilinn, Co. na Mí
