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  • This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting. A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

    Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.73, Courier Corporation