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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.

Jane Austen
Wish, Shy, Natural
"Sense and Sensibility". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 17, 1811.
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.