WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:25:44 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Baretti, Giuseppe – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Baretti, Giuseppe -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/baretti-giuseppe/32924/ https://wist.info/baretti-giuseppe/32924/#respond Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:15:23 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=32924 I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

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Giuseppe Baretti (1719–1789) Italian-English literary critic and translator [a.k.a. Joseph Baretti]
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