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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
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Aiberdeen
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