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born ... stable ... gentleman: Wellington, on being "accused" of being Irish, replied: "Because a man is born in a stable that does not make him a horse" → see also William Makepeace Thackeray, Lectures on the English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century, "If Swift was Irish, then a man born in a stable is a horse" → cf Von Falke's joke (in Sigmund Freud, Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious) on Wellington and his horse in the Dublin waxworks (same white harse)
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- Ulysses 435.03: "No born gentleman..."

Barnstaple: a town in North Devon, 45 miles east of the town of Wellington in Somerset, from where the Duke of Wellington took his name
- A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

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-* '''born ... stable ... gentleman:''' Wellington, on being "accused" of being Irish, replied: "Because a man is born in a stable that does not make him a horse" &rarr; see also William Makepeace Thackeray, ''Lectures on the English Humorists'', "If Swift was Irish, then a man born in a stable is a horse" &rarr; cf Von Falke's joke (in Sigmund Freud, ''Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious'') on Wellington and his horse in the Dublin waxworks ([[same white harse]])
+* '''born ... stable ... gentleman:''' Wellington, on being "accused" of being Irish, replied: "Because a man is born in a stable that does not make him a horse" &rarr; see also William Makepeace Thackeray, ''Lectures on the English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century'', "If Swift was Irish, then a man born in a stable is a horse" &rarr; cf Von Falke's joke (in Sigmund Freud, ''Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious'') on Wellington and his horse in the Dublin waxworks ([[same white harse]])
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 ** '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 435.03:''' "No born gentleman..."