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Card V-13: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold? … Thus much of this will make black white, foul fair, wrong right, base noble, old young, coward valiant.

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Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold? … Thus much of this will make black white, foul fair, wrong right, base noble, old young, coward valiant.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE · TIMON OF ATHENS · C. 1606

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Source

“Timon of Athens” (c. 1606), Act IV, Scene 3 – Timon digs for roots and finds gold

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About the author

English poet and playwright (1564–1616). “Timon of Athens” portrays a rich man whom money first costs his friends and then all his illusions.

The question on the back

How much does money color your view of a person?