In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty; In time of adversity, not one in twenty.
“In times of prosperity, friends are plenty; in times of adversity, not one in twenty.”
True friendship is proven not by good times but by loyalty during hardship.
— Traditional Bahamas Wisdom, Bahamas
Source: Traditional Bahamas proverb, public-domain oral tradition (recorded by H.H. Finlay, Eleuthera, 1925)
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