Because a man is born in a stable that does not make him a horse.
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Quoted as a dubious statement perhaps made early in his career in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (1992) edited by John Simpson and Jennifer Speake, p. 162.1st 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
Variants: If a man be 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.
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Wagon is the bread-earning horse of the Railways. Load it adequately. Make it run and don't stable it.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
Oliver Goldsmith
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