The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't.
Aldous HuxleyHell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
Aldous Huxley