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  What it means

  Work and thrift bring plenty. Combining diligent effort with careful, steady habits leads to prosperity and sufficiency.

  English equivalent

  Industry and thrift bring abundance.

  Vocabulary

  • statek — steadiness, thrift, prudence (archaic/proverb sense)
  • dostatek — plenty, sufficiency, prosperity

  Grammar note

  'Dają' is the third person plural present of 'dawać'. Note that 'statek' here is an archaic noun meaning prudence or thrift, not a ship.

  Cultural context

  The word 'statek' in the sense of 'prudence/thrift' is now archaic in everyday Polish but survives in proverbs.

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