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“Touch not; taste not; handle not.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8fe359639cdf94fc3bc2e7c120680bd751a4ec1de0acf2ea3840cee4b854b65a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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