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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes: We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.
         

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.


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