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* {{quote-book , by = (Plutarch) , title = (Parallel Lives) , first = John , last = Langhorne , authorlink = John Langhorne (poet) , coauthors = Langhorne, William , publisher = E. and C. Dilly , year = 1770 , page = 457 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=HCIJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA457 , passage = None of these things, however, disturbed him; for, at once abandoning his hopes and his cares, he left his Timonian retreat, and returned to Alexandria; }} * {{quote-news , date = 1939-06-13 , newspaper = (The New York Times) , title = Dr. Ezra Pound , url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00F1FF93F54107A93C1A8178DD85F4D8385F9 , page = 22 , passage = Yesterday Hamilton College doctored Ezra Loomis Pound, the Idaho lad who was graduated from it in 1905. In his habitual Timonian mood he has, time and time again, taken the hide off American professors. }} * {{quote-book , year = 1962 , first = Vladimir , last = Nabokov , authorlink = Vladimir Nabokov , title = (Pale Fire): A Novel , location = New York , publisher = G. P. Putnam's Sons , section = Index (written by the author, part of the narrative) (Repr. Vintage Books, 1989, ISBN 0-679-72342-0.) , page = 308 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=EgQ4AAAAIAAJ&q=%22his+having+no+library+in+his+Timonian+cave%22

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, passage = Kinbote, Charles, Dr., [...]; his modesty, 34; his having no library in his Timonian cave, 39; his belief in his having inspired S, 42; }} * {{quote-book , year = 2002 , first = Lawrence I. , last = Berkove , title = A Prescription for Adversity: The Moral Art of Ambrose Bierce , publisher = Ohio State University Press , isbn = 978-0814208946 , ol = 11352634M , section = Introduction , page = xiv , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=3AtoLPo4QXkC&pg=PR14 , passage = Like Swift, whom he admired and imitated and with whom he had much in common, Bierce was a man who hated boldly and well and yet was not a Timonian misanthrope. }} *