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Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

Og Mandino

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Og Mandino
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 1
Died: 1996
Died: September 3
Author
Writer
Framingham
Massachusetts
Augustine Og Mandino II
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Things
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Days
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