I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away l…

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I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet ✨ Jane Austen (2013). Pride and Prejudice: The Story of Elizabeth Bennet and Her Dealing with Issues of Manners, Upbringing, Morality, Education and Marriage in the Society of the Landed Gentry of Early 19th-Century England (Beloved Books Edition), p.51, Lulu Press, Inc
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