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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

Jane Austen
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

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I am excessively diverted.

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How can I dispose of myself with it?

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Time did not compose her.

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