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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...more

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There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

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sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and...more

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Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few w...more