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  • Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'

    Letter to Arthur Greeves on December 29, 1935. "They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914-1963)". Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 477, 1979.