Bishop Hard
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Bashfulness is not so much the effect of an ill education, as the proper gift and provision of wise nature. Every stage of life has its own set of manners, that is suited to it, and best becomes it. Each is beautiful in its season ; and you might as well quarrel with the child’s rattle, and advance him directly to the boy’s top and spanfarthing, as expect from diffident youth the manly confidence of riper age.