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We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward. - Thomas Hughes Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Diffidence is not always innocence. - Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do. - William Shakespeare Diffidence is a sort of false modesty. - William Makepeace Thackeray Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was. - Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford
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