Ekki er allt gull sem glóir.
“Not all that glitters is gold.”
Appearances can deceive; something attractive on the surface is not always genuinely valuable.
— Traditional Iceland Wisdom, Iceland
Source: Traditional Iceland proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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