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1. Proverbs

   

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   Never tie with your tongue what your teeth cannot loosen.
   Many are cold but few are frozen.
   Many are called but few get up.
   A pint a day keeps the doctor away.
   Late to bed and late to rise, gives you pains in you legs and cramps in your thighs.
   Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
   A dance every night is the undertakers delight.
   Marry in haste, lament in leisure.
   All that glitters is not gold.
   Better to die than lie.
   Far of hills are green.
   Far off cows wer wear long horns.
   One good turn deserves another.
   Too many cooks spoil the broth.
   Do not cry over spilt milk.
   Say little and say well.
   Wisdom is better that rubies.
   A covetous man is never in want
   Diet cures more than a doctor.
   Enough is as good as a feast.
   Hurt not any animal for sport.
   Necessity is the mother of invention
   Speak not evil of one another.

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   1. seánra
      1. ealaín bhéil (~1,483)
         1. seanfhocail (~4,377)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Willie Costigan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Gabhalmhaigh, Co. Chill Chainnigh