“Vanity, not love, has been my folly.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”
— Jane Austen, book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
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