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Benvolio
Nephew to Montague, a testy, litigious gentleman, who would
“quarrel with a man that had a hair more or a hair less in his beard
than he had.” Mercutio says to him, “Thou hast quarrelled with a man
for coughing in the street, because he hath wakened thy dog that hath
lain asleep in the sun.” (Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, iii.
1.)
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