Quote#Wisdom
On him who is not convinced by the arguments of Payne, the absurdity…
Quote byWolfe Tone · 1763–1798
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: An address to the people of Ireland on the present important crisis (22 November 1796), quoted in T. W. Moody, R. B. McDowell and C. J. Woods (eds.), The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 1763–98, Volume II: America, France and Bantry Bay, August 1795 to December 1796 (2001), p. 379.
English (original)
On him who is not convinced by the arguments of Payne, the absurdity of hereditary monarchs and hereditary legislatures where no man would admit of hereditary cob[b]lers who wished to have his shoes well mended, I despair of making any impression.
— Wolfe Tone
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