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✦Historical Figure

Duke of Wellington

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was a British military leader who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo and later served as Prime Minister. He was famously associated with the aphorism about being born in a stable.

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Appearance

Mentioned once in Something About Dr. Mary.

Something About Dr. Mary

Season 7 · Episode 16 · S07E16

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“The drier version of this saying which Frasier might well already know would be the Duke of Wellington's aphorism that "a man may be born in a stable, that doesn't make him a horse."”
— Frasier

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