“The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
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Sir Hugo's Choice, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
