[Ads-l] (Off topic) Request Financial Times article mentioning Quote Investigator

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

The request for information about the FT article has now been satisfied.
Great thanks to DanG. The article did compliment the QI website:


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And yet it does not really matter whether the historic figures concerned
said these things or not, although the wonderful Quote Investigator website
seeks the original version of many widely used aphorisms.

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Garson

>
> Source: Financial Times at ft.com
> Article: An apt misquotation can reveal the greater truth
> Author: John Kay
> Date: December 29, 2015 3:54 pm
> Article subtitle: Many apocryphal quotes represent posterity's
> polish on what was actually said
>
> Thanks,
> Garson

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