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School: Tigneatha

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Tynagh, Co. Galway
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Pádraig Ó Caomhánaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0053, Page 0067

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  2. Proverbs

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    Better alone than in bad company.
    Two heads are better thanone.
    Early to bed and eary to rise is the way to be healthy and makes a man wise.
    He who goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
    Short accounts make long friends.
    Two wrongs never make a right.
    Time not tide waits for no man.
    Time and patience that brought the snail to Jerusalem.
    Six of one and half a dozen of the other.
    Giving to people that don't want it is like drawing apples to
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