Keep a thing seven years and you’ll always find a use for it.
More Irish Proverbs:
Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat.Irish
The raggy colt often made a powerful horse.
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Praise the ripe field, not the green corn.
Irish
If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.
Irish
The devil never grants long leases.
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Everyone is nice until the cow gets into the garden.
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