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School: Drumshanbo (C.) (roll number 12873)

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Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Margaret Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0207, Page 126

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    doctor away.
    Man proposes and God disposes.
    A dead hen is done laying.
    There's no smoke without a fire.
    A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
    One man can bring a horse to the brink, but forty would not make him drink.
    Every man is a good horseman on the ground.
    People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
    Out of debt, out of danger.
    A mans house is his castle.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Monica Tierney
    Gender
    Female