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We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

Gustave Flaubert
Hands, Idols, Should
Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.235, Penguin
We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.