"(...) However,he wrote some verses to her, and very pretty they were."
"And so ended his afection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!"
"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."

--Pride and Prejudice. J. Austen.










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