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Better poor with honor than rich with shame.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about shame, wealth

A good name is better than oil (i.e. riches).

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth, name, good, good luck

Better poor with honour than rich with shame.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about honour, shame, wealth

Fortune does not stand waiting at any one's door.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth

Fortune is round; it makes one a king, another a dunghill.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth

A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves, wealth

A fool may meet with good fortune, but the wise only profits by it.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth, good, good luck

The rich devour the poor, and the devil devours the rich and so both are devoured.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth, devil

Fortune lost, nothing lost; courage lost, much lost; honour lost, more lost; soul lost, all lost.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about courage, honour, soul, wealth, nothing

The idle remarks of the rich are taken as maxims of wisdom by the poor.

Proverbs and old sayings about wisdom, wealth

Fortune favours the brave.

Proverbs and old sayings English about wealth

Children are poor men's riches.

Proverbs and old sayings English about wealth, children, man

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverbs and old sayings English about joke, wealth, man

He dances well to whom fortune pipes.

Proverbs and old sayings English about wealth

It is better to be born lucky than rich.

Proverbs and old sayings English about wealth

Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings English about wealth, man

God help the rich man, let the poor man beg.

Proverbs and old sayings English about help, wealth, god, man

All work and no play makes Jack filthy rich.

Proverbs and old sayings English about work, wealth

All ask if a man be rich, no one if he be good.

Proverbs and old sayings English about wealth, good, good luck, man

He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good.

Proverbs and old sayings English about wealth, good, good luck
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