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

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Giving, Gold, Poverty
"Satires (Satire 8)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.