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“He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 04728daa81a1b7a7937b43804f8aa8d16404680ec831c321daedef5269b10e33
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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