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“I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings and yet depend upon the charity of a flower for life. I will be as the firefly and my light will brighten the world.
— Og Mandino
Author of The Greatest Salesman in the World
The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 16 : The Scroll Marked IX, p. 94.
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