MOROCCO: All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.

Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Merchant of Venice, Act 2, sc. 7, l. 73ff [Morocco] (1597)
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Usually modernized as "All that glitters is not gold."

See Herbert.

 
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