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Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is. -- Margaret of Valois
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. -- Aristotle
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. -- Samuel Johnson
Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity. -- William Shenstone
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. -- Joseph Addison
When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. -- George McGovern
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
So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less! -- Lord Byron
Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver. -- Alfred Austin
He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught. -- Torquato Tasso
We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion. -- Joseph Addison
Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. -- Samuel Johnson
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders. -- Joseph Addison

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