Daily Thought For January 12, 2016

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On The Value of Friendship

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


St. Aelred of Rievaulx

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