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If we choose to be offended when we don't get our own way, Then we're going to live constantly on the edge of anger. But if we say to ourselves, A merry heart does good like a medicine, It'll make all the difference in the world.

Charles R. Swindoll

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Charles R. Swindoll
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: October 18
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