"When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows". This is a proverb. Do you think it's revealing an ordinary and common fact?

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"When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows". This is a proverb. Do you think it's revealing an ordinary and  common fact?

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In more colloquial English I would put it "When poverty walks through the door, love leaps out the window."

I think it's a very cynical and amusing statement.  I suspect whoever first said it was disappointed in love, and didn't realize how lucky they were.

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Sometimes it happens the other way around