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“Gold and Silver have been the predominant currency for 4,500 years, but they became money in Lydia, in about 680 B.C. When they were minted into coins of equal weight in order to make trade easier and smoother. But it was when coinage first made its appearance in Athens that it truly flourished.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Made Order Easier Equal Gold Weight Trade Appearance Silver Currency Coins Athens Gold And Silver

Author:Michael Maloney

“All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.”

Gold Appearance Glitter

Book:Dryden: Selected Poems

Source: Dryden: Selected Poems

“And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes. For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.”

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Author:Paul the Apostle

“It is because gold is rare that gilding has been invented, which, without having its solidity, has all its brilliancy. Thus, to replace the kindness we lack, we have devised politeness which has all its appearance.”

Has Beens Kindness Gold Appearance Politeness Solidity

Author:Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis

“Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds.”

Ifs Men Mind Reason Use Lost Natural Benefits Gold Prejudice Assuming Appearance Every Man Carrie Superficial Spoiled Presumption Touchstones

Book:An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].

Source: An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].

“'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.”

Age Lasts Belief Economy Modern Self Esteem Standards Gold West Males Appearance Determined Currency Dominance Belief Systems Gold Standard Modern Age Male Dominance Beauty Myth

Author:Naomi Wolf

“All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”

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Book:The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.”

Giving Poverty Gold Appearance Ugliness

Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.”

People Gold Appearance Rough Polished Brass

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“All that glisters is not gold.”

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Author:Common