It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.
Gilbert K. Chesterton