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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

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Never
Sensibility
Kept
Seem
Negligent
Natural
Foolishly
Wish
Awkwardness
Often
Shyness
Seems
Offend
Back
Shy

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