louse quotes

Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  On the relative merits of two minor poets. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

A louse in the locks of literature.

-Tennyson
Of Churton Collins. Quoted in Evan Charteris Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse (1931), ch.14.

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