I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem n…

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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. ✨ Sense and Sensibility. Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 17, 1811.
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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. ✨ Sense and Sensibility. Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 17, 1811.

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