ગરીબીમાં મુસ્તાક રહેવું એ ગુલામગીરીથી જર મેળવવા કરતાં ભલું.

garībīmāṁ mustāka rahēvuṁ ē gulāmagīrīthī jara mēḷavavā karatāṁ bhaluṁ.

Literally: Better to stay proud in poverty than to get wealth through servitude.
What it means: What you had to become to get it is part of the price.

કહેવત સમુદાય (Kahevat Samuday) · read from the scan by machine — the Gujarati itself is unchecked · English is machine-made and nobody has checked it yet

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