a story on "not all that glitters is gold"
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The proverb “all that glitters is not gold” means not to trust everything you see. Gold is a precious metal and is rare. ... However, there are other metals which are widely sold in the markets which looks like gold. The phrase also means 'do not be deceived by looks because a person may look innocent but they are not.
All that glitters is not gold is a well-known saying, meaning that not everything that looks precious or true turns out to be so. This can apply to people, places, or things that promise to be more than they really are. The expression, in various forms, originated in or before the 12th century[1] and may date back to Aesop.[2] Chaucer gave two early versions in English: "But all thing which that schyneth as the gold / Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told," and "Hyt is not al golde that glareth." The popular form of the expression is a derivative of a line in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, which employs the word "glisters," a 17th-century synonym for "glitters." The line comes from a secondary plot of the play, the puzzle of Portia's boxes (Act II - Scene VI - Prince of Morocco): All that glisters is not gold;