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A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom, Gold, Surface
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Civil Disobedience and Other Essays”, p.80, Courier Corporation
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.