School: Killyon (roll number 7120)
- Location:
- Cill Liatháin, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Brighid, Bean Uí Fithcheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0693, Page 173
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- (continued from previous page)21. He who goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
22. Little strokes fill great oaks.
23. Of small account is a fly until he gets into your eye.
24. Grasp all lose all.
25. Hunger is the best sauce.
26. Waste not, want not.
27. Beauty is only skin deep.
28. Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
29. Many hands make light work.
30. The longer you live the more you know.
31. The pot should not call the pan black.
32. Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomena Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill Liatháin, Co. na Mí
- Informant
- James Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
