But only because they are so friendly.

For if they shake hands with you, they are likely to break your arms or crush your fingers to a jelly." "Why ?" asked Button-Bright.
"Because we are the strongest people in all the world." "Pshaw!" exclaimed the boy.

"That's bragging.

You prob'ly don't know how strong other people are.

Why, once I knew a man in Philadelphi' who could bend iron bars with just his hands!" "But mercy me, it's no trick to bend iron bars," said His Majesty.
"Tell me, could this man crush a block of stone with his bare hands ?" "No one could do that," declared the boy.
"If I had a block of stone, I'd show you," said the Czarover, looking around the room.