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A toast is good, and a bumper is not bad: but the best toasts may be so often repeated as to disgust the palate, and ceaseless rounds of bumpers may nauseate and overload the stomach.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke uses a metaphor about toasts to illustrate the idea that repetition can lead to distaste.
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