Jane Austen quote: Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself ...

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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