#bashful

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ↗

— Aristotle

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The bashful are always aggressive at heart. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, Nature was his book. ↗

— Robert Bloomfield

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Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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Miss Child is never bashful with butter. ↗

— Phil Donahue

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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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I don't mean to be bashful, but I was. ↗

— Willie Mays

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A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. ↗

— George McGovern

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