"To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism — this is the art of living."
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As quoted in From Grandmother with Love (2005) by Becky Kelly and Patrick Regan, p. 53.
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Jean de La Fontaine
1621 – 1695
französischer Schriftsteller
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