Quote by Joseph Addison
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. - Joseph Addison

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. – Joseph Addison

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Whats the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence. – Terry Bradshaw

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Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. – André Dubus

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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. – Andrew Carnegie

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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. – Mark Twain

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