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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power, for you necessarily feel some towards him; and since he will take no denial, you must comply with his peremptory demands, or send for a constable, which out of respect for his character you will not do.
William Hazlitt
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Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last.


— Canto III, line 1367.

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You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch; therefore bear you the lantern.

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— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act III, scene 3, line 20.

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He cannot drink five bottles, bilk the score, Then kill a constable, and drink five more; But he can draw a pattern, make a tart, And has ladies' etiquette by heart.

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— William Cowper, Progress of Error, line 191.

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