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“Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 53b2bd4e20edaf3f3575d7d2e0b37fcad18a8ec8cb770c9d6f048273ba0c7445
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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