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“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. vii. 61.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7ed491b8ffe9b2372afa89224174d881df4d7978745e60111f90c9775bbffe69
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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