Rare Occasions

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“Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)

“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 (1817–1862)