[Ads-l] Quote Origin: The Top Is Greedy and Mean (Was Request help accessing 1983 Mail on Sunday)

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

The QI article about the quotation in the subject line is now available here:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2025/06/13/top-greedy/

[Begin acknowledgement excerpt]
Great thanks to researcher Dave Wilton who accessed the important
article in "The Mail on Sunday".
[End acknowledgement excerpt]

Garson

On Sun, Jun 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Many thanks to Dave Wilton who kindly and rapidly responded with the
> requested information. I will post a QI article in the coming days.
> Garson
>
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM ADSGarson O'Toole
> <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I received a request to trace a quotation attributed to British
> > politician Michael Foot. According to a June 1983 article in the "New
> > Statesman" the quotation appeared in "The Mail on Sunday" within an
> > article by Norman Mailer. Here is the target text:
> >

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