Letter about ‘All that glitters is not gold’

College Road, Bhola

August 23, 20__

Dear Asad,

Accept my warm love. Hope you are well. You wanted me to tell you something about the proverb [প্রবাদ] ‘All that glitters is not gold’. Now, I am telling you something about it.

We know that gold glitters in sunlight. But everything glossy is not necessarily gold. You must know the story of Sheikh Saadi.

The rich man took the poet as an ordinary man. Because he was wearing simple dress. The poet went to the rich man’s house again wearing a gorgeous dress.

He taught him a great lesson. So, dress or any outward charm of anything or anybody cannot be a standard of measuring inner worth [মূল্য]. True beauty always lies within.

Your friend,

Altaf