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If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, 'You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation. . . why should you be frightened?'

Source: Portraits from Memory, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, by Bertrand Russell.
-- Beatrice Potter Webb, (Jan 22 1858-1943), US social economist; She co-authored, with husband Sidney, works on labor, history, and economics; cofounded Fabian Society, 1883; founded London School of Economics.

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