Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.

Groucho Marx

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Topic

Social status Man as social animal

Author

Groucho Marx

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Comedian Actor

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Marx, Groucho. Letter to President of Hollywood Club. c. 1949.

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Another quote from the 1940s

And were an epitaph to be my story
I'd have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on my stone:
I have a lovers quarrel with the world.

Robert Frost

The Lesson for Today

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Topic
Man and the world

Author

Robert Frost
Source
The Lesson for Today
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1941 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Frost, Robert. Reading of The Lesson for Today at Harvard University. 20 June 1941, Phi Beta Kappa Society meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Another quote about Man as social animal

Man is a social animal.

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics

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Topic
Man as social animal Nature of man

Author

Baruch Spinoza
Source
Ethics
Medium
Treatise
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Latin
Time
1677 1670s 17th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Spinoza, Baruch. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Desmonstrata [Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order]. 1677, pt. 4, prop. 35, note.

Current Citation

Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics, translated by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kinser. Cambridge University Press, 2018, pt. 4, prop. 35, note.

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You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Topic
Forgiveness
Speaker
Mr. Bennet

Author

Jane Austen
Source
Pride and Prejudice
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Irony
Language
English
Time
1813 1810s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 15.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 15.