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   A glutton lives to eat and wise man eats to live.
   He that by the plough would thrive, himself must either hold or drive.
   They that grasp at too much often lose all.
   Make the hay while the sun shines.
   A laying hen is better than a nest of eggs.
   Many hands make light work.
   A wrinkled purse a wrinkled face.
   A stitch in time saves nine.
   Half-burned coals are easy kindled.
   Time and tide wait on no man.
   A good name is better than great riches.
   Better to wear out shoes than sheets.
   Bachelors' wives and maidens' children are always well trained.
   Too late to spare when all is spent.
   Too many cooks spoil the broth.
   Don't marry until you have a house where in to tarry.
   A faint heart never won a fair lady.
   You can judge a man by the company he keeps.
   Always taking out of the meal tub and never putting in soon comes to the bottom.
   The eye of the master will do more work than

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. proverbs (~4,377)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Anna Lynch

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drumhillagh North, Co. Cavan