School: Denbawn
- Location:
- Dennbane, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Cionnaigh
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- (continued from previous page)take care of themselves.
Wisps make a bundle.
Flies wont enter the mouth that is kept closed.
Health is better than wealth.
The more hurry the less speed.
The sitting hen never fatens.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
You might as well expect a silk purse out of a sow's lug.
What do you expect out of a crow's egg but another crow.
What is one man's meat is another man's poison.
A new broom sweeps clean.
If we had good weather until November there would be somebody complaining.
The person who talks most works least.
The day of the wind is not the day to thatch the house.
There is no fire like your own fire.
Charity begins at home but it should not end there.
Be the road straight or crooked, the high road is the shortest.
Money is the servant of some men and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mamie Corcoran
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Cavan
