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Thank you. Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.

Today we are going to revisit a Christmas reading from last year,

an adaptation from the classic holiday book,

The Feast of Saint Friend by Arnold Bennett, where the author discusses friendship and the timeless gift of goodwill.

Children divide their adult acquaintances into two categories.

Those who sympathize with them in this bizarre and trying adventure called life, and those who don't.

The second category is the much larger of the two.

Very many people belong to it who think that they belong to the first.

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