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Date: 2009-12-10 01:26 am (UTC)
Also 71. "All that glitters is not gold and all who wander are not lost (Lord of the Rings)"

It is "all that is gold does not glitter" and "not all who wander are lost."

It is possible to mentally finesse the categoricals in the former phrasing in order to produce the meaning Tolkien desired, but the more natural reading suggests that gold NEVER glitters and those who wander are NEVER lost. The text itself, however, is plain; gold sometimes glitters but also sometimes doesn't, and those who wander are sometimes lost, but not always.
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