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No medicine is more valuable none more efficacious none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.
No medicine is more valuable none more efficacious none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.
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- Saint Alfred of Rievaulx
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