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Irish Proverb
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life. (coward and cowardice)
It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. (cooperation)
God often pays debts without money. (debt)
A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy. (debt)
Every invalid is a physician. (doctors)
Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. (churches)
When the apple is ripe it will fall. (maturity)
Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat. (nature)
When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets. (memory)
Strife is better than loneliness. (loneliness)
Good luck beats early rising. (luck)
It is easy to halve the potato where there is love. (love)
Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting. (nationalities and na)
God likes help when helping people. (service)
A silent mouth is melodious. (silence)
If you want an audience start a fight. (publicity)
Better be quarrelling than lonesome. (quarrels)
All sins cast long shadows. (sin)
There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave. (sea)
What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for. (alcohol and alcoholi)
Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying. (age and aging)
The work praises the man. (work)
Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain. (wives)
Everyone is wise until he speaks. (wisdom)
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