Variants: If a man be born in a stable, that does not make him a horse.
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Quoted as as an anonymous proverb in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899), p. 1711st Duke of Wellington
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No, he is not an Irishman. He was born in Ireland; but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.
1st Duke of Wellington
Because a man is born in a stable that does not make him a horse.
1st Duke of Wellington
If a gentleman happens to be born in a stable, it does not follow that he should be called a horse.
1st Duke of Wellington
Wagon is the bread-earning horse of the Railways. Load it adequately. Make it run and don't stable it.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
Many variants on this exist, notably “Great lovers are made, not born.” and “(Great) leaders are made, not born.”
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Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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