"Lonely at the Top"

[Michael Quinion]

Fred Shapiro wrote:

> Here's another one: I am trying to trace back the proverb "It's lonely
> at the top."  Can anyone tell me the earliest occurrence of this on
> ProQuest Historical Newspapers or Newspaperarchive.com?

On Newspaperarchive.com:

1945 Bradford Era (Bradford, Pennsylvania) 6/7 President Truman is
beginning to suffer from the exclusiveness which inevitably is the
lot of the occupant of the highest office in the land. He is learning
what so many have discovered before him - that it is lonely at the
top.

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Michael Quinion
Editor, World Wide Words
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