"In entering on the duty to-day entrusted to me, I should hold it little respectful to my audience if I disturbed them by expression of the diffidence which they must know that I feel in first speaking in this house - diffidence which might well have prevented me from accepting such a duty, but ought not to interfere with my endeavour simply to fulfil it.
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1923 - Some Aspects of the Life and Works of John Ruskin - Bro W J Williams.
