There is an old saying in China: "By learning, one can obtain a golden house and a beautiful woman in a book". This means that you might have everything you might imagine by becoming a scholar and studying hard.
我國有句古話：「書中自有黃金屋，書中自有顏如玉。」自然，時代不同了，「死讀書」已不再能給人帶來財富或美妻，但「開卷有益」卻仍是我國人深信不疑的金玉良言。