School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Síle Ní Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0291, Page 202
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13. Sense bought is better than sense taught.
14. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise.
15. It is harder for a rich man to go to heaven, than for a camel go through the eye of a needle.
16. A bark is worse than a bite.
17.The cure is as bad as the disease.
18. Blood is thicker than water.
19. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
20. Beauty does not boil the pot.
21. Plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you will have corn to sell and to keep.
- Collector
- Rose Hickey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Skeaghanore East, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Joe Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skeaghanore East, Co. Cork
