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School: Droichead na Ceathramhna

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Bridgecartron or Derrycashel, Co. Roscommon
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    (1) Keep a firm grip of your homesteads.
    (2) Laugh and the world laughs with you.
    (3) Weep and you weep alone.
    (4) Feast, and your halls are crowded.
    (6) Better late than never.
    (7) One man can not serve two masters.
    (8) God bless my mother. All I am or hope to be I owe to her.
    (9) Man proposes, but God disposes.
    (10) Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
    (11) The early bird has the early worm.
    (12) Plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you will have corn to sell and to keep.
    (13) When your neighbours house is burning take care of your own.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lizzie B. Bruen
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Derreenanarry, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Martin Tobin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    54
    Address
    Bridgecartron or Derrycashel, Co. Roscommon