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    "Experience teaches".
    "An excuse is nearer to a woman than her apron".
    "Every story could be worse".
    "Laugh, and the world laughs with you, weep, and you weep alone".
    "It is easier to fall than to rise".
    "Perseverence conquers".
    "Familiarity breeds contempt".
    "Third time lucky".
    "A good herd of cows keep a farmer and a farmer keeps a bad herd".
    "Breeding breaks out through the eyes of a cat".
    "The help of God is nearer than the door".
    "Do as you would be done by".
    "What he does not know will not trouble him".
    "The younger the chicken, the sweeter the picking".
    "A person's mouth often broke his nose".
    "An ounse of breeding is
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tomás De Bláca
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cappaghabaun Mountain, Co. Clare