Many readers will be familiar with the mock obituary that was published in The Times newspaper a  number of years ago, which began, “Today we mourn the passing of a

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Many people will know the Serenity prayer, written by Reinhold Niebuhr, which states: “God, grant  me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the

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