A golden key can open any door
Meaning: Wealth and privilege grant access to opportunities otherwise unavailable to ordinary people.
Origin: A proverb with versions in many European languages: money opens doors that are otherwise closed. It appears in English in Henry Vizetelly's Berlin under the New Empire (1879); an earlier English source hasn't been traced.
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