And yet, as eaters of bubble-and-squeak sometimes find, another plateful is often just too tempting.
Offering special incentives is just too tempting, politically, and it may even be helpful in some areas.
By 1999, the Internet boom was too tempting for Stern to ignore.
Although I knew my heart was in non-profits, when I was offered the opportunity to be a part of Microsoft it was too tempting to decline.
Moreover, the chance of defeating the Labour government on one of its central policies within six months of the election may be too tempting for either party to pass up.
But independent of the merits of any claims current or future, Facebook is just too tempting a target for consumer groups, ambitious attorneys, and government agencies looking to advance their agendas and careers.
In the UK, the Callaghan government of the 1970s flirted with the idea of setting up an oil fund, but in a time of mounting economic crisis it was too tempting just to grab the money.
"The core gamer market is probably too tempting for them to leave for the other guys, " said Colin Sebastian, an analyst at Baird Equity Research, noting such consumers tend to buy new software more often than casual gamers.
However, he is contracted to Twente until 2011, and if they win on Sunday, the opportunity to lead the Tukkers in their first Champions League group stage campaign may prove too tempting an opportunity to turn his back on.
"With the price of fuel it's too tempting for people to say we're only producing a small amount of fuel that stays below the criteria for being a proper registered producer with all the costs and all the bureaucracy and all the burdens that brings with it, " says Jim Walker, managing director of Argent Energy.
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"When companies get on the treadmill beating the drum for more earnings growth, it's very tempting to invest too much capital in unrewarding, mature or risky businesses, " says Bennett Stewart , senior partner at the Stern Stewart consulting firm.
There is some evidence, too, that medications have gotten more tempting in recent years.
The data's tempting but there's too much variation even within stands.
With this year's holidays being just around the corner, it's only natural for companies to start tempting potential customers with cash-saving, too-good-to-pass deals.
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It is tempting to imagine the nursery scheme in schools, too.
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His haunted, chronically depressed characters have seen too much or done too much, and he's done so many of them that it may be tempting to pass on the pleasure of this one's company.
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The visitors could have doubled their advantage when Weiss robbed Rankin and whipped a tempting cross from the right into the path of Jelavic but the striker was just too slow to connect with the goal at his mercy.
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