On Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 1:17:18 PM UTC, charles wrote:
In article ,
Lee wrote:
On 25/03/2017 09:29, Rod Speed wrote:
harry wrote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK9if5LRWv8

That ****wit wasn€˜t an immigrant, stupid.

Semantics. Being born in a country does not make one a native.

as the Duke of Wellington, who was born in Ireland, said "Being born is a
stable doesn't make one a horse".

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from KT24 in Surrey, England

I'm fed up reading this mis-attribution

Misattributed[edit]
If a gentleman happens to be born in a stable, it does not follow that he should be called a horse.
As quoted in Genetic Studies in Joyce (1995) by David Hayman and Sam Slote. Though such remarks have often been quoted as Wellington's response on being called Irish, the earliest published sources yet found for similar comments are those about him attributed to an Irish politician: