Fireflies

Notable quotes

“Don't mistake vivacity for wit, thare iz about az much difference az thare iz between lightning and a lightning bug.”
— Josh Billings, Josh Billings' Old Farmer's Allminax, "January 1871". Also in Everybody's Friend, or; Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor (1874), p. 304
“To a child's eye a lightning-bug outshines the brightest fixed star. There is no little childishness in every generation of grown-up people. The Lightning-bug never sees a second summer, the star shines on forever.”
— Oscar Penn Fitzgerald, Judge Longstreet: A Life-Sketch (1891), p. 13
“Every Lightning-bug has his night, but he never has had his day.”
— George Augustus Lofton, Character Sketches: or, The blackboard Mirror (1890), "The Lightning-bug Convention"

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