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“All that glisters is not gold.”

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The Prince of Morocco says it while choosing a casket by appearance alone, and the plot of the scene is his method being tested. The proverb was already old when Shakespeare used it, which is why it sounds like a proverb rather than an observation.

Source: The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 7

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