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Touch pitch, and you will be defiled. “The finger that touches rouge will be red.” “Evil communications corrupt good manners.” “A rotten apple injures its companions.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.