School: Carlingford (C.) (roll number 13582)
- Location:
- Carlingford, Co. Louth
- Teacher: S. Ní Mhártain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0657, Page 134
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- 1. Virtue looks as well in rags and patches as in purple and fine linens.
2. He who goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
3. Tell the truth and shame the devil
4. Many an honest heart beats under a ragged coat.
5. He who laughs last laughs best
6. A green Christmas makes a fat Churchyard
7. Make hay while the sun shines
8. A good beginning is half the work.
9. Nothing bad but could be worse.
10. Never trust a stranger.
11. Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you
12. A borrowed horse has hard hoofs.
13. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
14. Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
15. The truth is often bitter.
19 Put your money away for a rainy day for the sun will not always shine----1. In speaking of a person's faults do not foget your own.
2. People with homes of glass should not throw stones.
3. We have no right to judge a man until he's fairly tried, then should(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pauline Cunningham
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Newry Street, Co. Louth
