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Moralizing, I observed, then, that "all
that glitters is not gold." Mr. Ballou said I could go further than
that, and lay it up among my treasures of knowledge, that nothing that glitters
is gold. So I learned then, once for all, that gold in its native state
is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only lowborn metals excite the
admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the
rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying
men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that. - Roughing It |
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