Things sometimes look different than they really are. A restaurant that looks old and small might have amazing food, for example.<\/p>\n

The phrase goes back to at least the mid-19th century, as seen in the newspaper\u00a0<\/span>Piqua Democrat<\/i><\/span>, June 1867:
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Don’t judge a book by its cover, see a man by his cloth, as there is often a good deal of solid worth and superior skill underneath a [???] jacket and yaller pants<\/i><\/span>.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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