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Timon

Athenian of the age of Pericles notorious for his misanthropy, which was reported and elaborated by classical authors, and became the subject of the play by Shakespeare.



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Such men, in other men's calamities, are, as it were, in season, and are ever on the loading part: not so good as the dogs, that licked Lazarus' sores; but like flies, that are still buzzing upon any thing that is raw; misanthropi, that make it their practice, to bring men to the bough, and yet never a tree for the purpose in their gardens, as Timon had.
This giving is flat usurpation, and therefore when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons, not at all considering the value of the gift but looking back to the greater store it was taken from,--I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
Wopsle's hands, became Timon of Athens; the beadle, Coriolanus.
 
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