“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
“There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or strugle a little bit to get.”
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