The Rose of Pleasure
It has been getting more and more difficult to find toasts I enjoy enough to post. But hope appears: I discovered a lengthy history on the subject containing references to a few books, some of them vintage. Here's a sampling!
"The rose of pleasure without the thorn!"
~The Toast Master's Guide by T. Hughes
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