I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love said Darcy. Of…

Jane Austen
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I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love said Darcy. Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away. ✨ Jane Austen (1946). PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, p.30, PDFreeBooks.org
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