A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling matters. In the face of such evidence, any argument to the contrary based on the claim that fish 'do not have the right sort of brain' can no longer be called scientific. It is just obstinate.

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.