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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.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“—a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Pollyalba’s 2025 Year in Books
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