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S. Austin Allibone, comp.  Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay.  1880.
 
Reserve
 
  Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
William Shenstone.    
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  A reserved man is in continual conflict with the social part of his nature, and even grudges himself the laugh into which he is sometimes betrayed.
William Shenstone.    
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  It can be no duty to write his heart upon his forehead, and to give all the inquisitive and malicious world a survey of those thoughts which is the prerogative of God only to know.
Robert South.    
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