filnally, look at when this writer lived - late XIX century. in books of that time "fortune" is used in the meaning I used in translation.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - one of the most famous beginnings.
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ubi nil vales ibi nil velis
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - one of the most famous beginnings.