Il più tristo mestier che mai sia stato,
Che sia, che mai sarà nel mondo tutto,
A mio parere, è quel del letterato.

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Translation: The very meanest trade, I’m very sure, That e’er has been, or is, or e’er will be In all the world, is that of literature. | Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 319.

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