Sweets grown common lose their dear delight. — William Shakespeare · Skopia

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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 102 · 1609

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Too much of a good thing

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1609 The Renaissance

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William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 102.

Original citation

Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 102, I. 12.

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