The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done y…

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. ✨ Reader's Digest, December 1954.
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. ✨ Reader's Digest, December 1954.

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