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School: Scoil an Chlochair, Dún Bleisce (roll number 14625)

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Doon, Co. Limerick
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An tSr. Regis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0519, Page 176

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    Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
    Fools build fine houses and wise men live in them.
    Plough deep while sluggards sleep and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
    Drink deep or taste not the pierian spring.
    Don't lose a sheep for a halfpenny of tar.
    Sew the wind and you will reap the whirlwind.
    Lucky in the morning, lucky in the evening.
    Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
    He that by the plough would thrive,
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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        1. proverbs (~4,377)
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