It is better to be born lucky than rich.

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It is better to be born lucky than rich.

Proverb collected by Thomas Preston

Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 1015. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_1015

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The master's eye makes the horse fat.

Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 1048. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_1048

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A man must sell his ware at the rate of the market.

Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 1030. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_1030

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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

William Wordsworth

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