School: Mín Bán (roll number 15394)
- Location:
- Meenbane, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Coluim
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 422
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- (continued from previous page)9. Many hands make light work.
10. Where there's a will, there's a way.
11. Never take the look by the cover.
12. Least said soonest mended.
13. An idle hand always finds some mischief to do.
14. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
15. Necessity is the mother of invention.
16. Look before you leap.
17. Lies have no legs.
18. Once payed, never craved.
19. Never count your chickens till they are hatched.
20. Two heads are better than one.
21. If in the morning, you throw minutes away, you cannot pick them up in the course of the day.
22. Rather death than shame.
23. No noble task was ever easy.
24. Many men have many minds.
25. Love the old when you are young.
26. You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.
27. Great evils have small beginnings.
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- Cathleen O' Boyle
- Gender
- Female
