School: Ceathrú (Carton) (roll number 15339)

Location:
Cartron, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Seán Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0215, Page 349

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  1. No 1 If you dont venture you wont win
    No 2 The falling out with friend's is the renewing of friendship
    No 3 A covetous man is always in want
    No 4 The youth should depend on the counsel of age.
    No 5 Enough is as good as a feast.
    No 6 If if's and and's were pots and pan's there would be no need for tinker's.
    No 7 Mind the pence and the pound's will take care of themselves
    No 8 Three removes are worse than an evection.
    No 9 Its a long lane without a turn
    No 10 The longest day has an end.
    No 11 The day of the big wind is not the day for pointing the scollips
    No 12 He who goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
    No 13 Better go to fasting than rise in debt.
    No 14 A watched pot never boil's
    No 15 He who does all does none at all
    No 16 Leave well done alone.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
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