School: Rathmorrel (roll number 10545)
- Location:
- Rathmorrel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Anraoí Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0417, Page 091
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- (continued from previous page)Bought sense is better than taught sense.
Command your tongue and temper.
The longest you live the more you learn.
The longest day must have an end, and the nearest friends must part.
You should have the patience of job to teach a bad scholar.
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
He is so poor as a church mouse.
He is as bold as brass.
He is as wrong as Moll Bell.
He is as dead as a door nail.
He is as strong as the back of a ditch.
He is as wild as a March hare.(continues on next page)
