After the house is finished, he deserts it.
More Spanish Proverbs:
The sharper soon cheats the covetous man.
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Like a parakeet that says what he knows but doesn't know what he says.
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The drunkard and the glutton come to poverty, and drowsiness clothes a man with rags.
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The more one has the more one wants.
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Either rich or hanged.
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