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

Source: When Maurice Morgann asked him who he considered to be the better poet - Smart or Derrick. Life of Johnson, (J. Boswell), Vol. IV
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.


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