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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Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday, you will be a real boy.

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Topic
Formation of character Growing up
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The Blue Fairy
Actor
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Source
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Medium
Film
Genre
Animation (film) Musical (film) Animation Musical
Language
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Time
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Citation

Pinocchio. Directed by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, Walt Disney Productions, 1940.

Another quote about Man as social animal

No man is an Island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne

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Topic
Interconnectedness of all people Man as social animal

Author

John Donne
Source
Meditation XVII Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1624 1620s 17th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Donne, John. "Meditation XVII." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes. London, 1624.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel. Vintage, 1999, meditation 17.

Another quote of the following type Irony

The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Topic
Truth hurts Truth Willful ignorance Freedom

Author

Herbert Agar
Source
A Time for Greatness
Statement Type
Irony
Language
English
Time
1942 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Agar, Herbert. A Time for Greatness. Little, Brown and Company, 1942.