Quote#Work
I would not have taken off my coat and gone to work had I not known…
Quote byCharles Stewart Parnell · 1846–1891
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Galway speech (1880).
English (original)
I would not have taken off my coat and gone to work had I not known that we were laying the foundations by this movement for the recovery of our legislative independence.
— Charles Stewart Parnell
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