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School: St Mary's, Buncrana

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Buncrana, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Bhraonáin
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    What you have is probably just as good as anything you are likely to get.
    Beware of pride when off the path,
    beware of sloth when on the path.
    Think of all you speak, but speak not all you think.
    A little pot is soon hot.
    Grasp all lose all.
    Hunger is the best sauce.
    If you would enjoy the fruit, pluck not the flower.
    Waste not, want not.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lily O' Donnell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Buncrana, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mr Patrick Josepth Finnegan
    Relation
    Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    73
    Address
    Ballymacarry, Co. Donegal