Constable John Stevens

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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.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I do not wish to see John ever again,—I mean him who is dead,—but that other, whom only he would have wished to see, or to be, of whom he was the imperfect representative. For we are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Remus, blow your horn!
    I’m ploughing on Sunday,
    Ploughing North America.
    Blow your horn!”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)