The way we take it reveals that we are too often thin-skinned.

Recent people are apt to be thin-skinned and self-conscious and self-assertive, while those with a thousand years of tradition would have thicker hides and would never feel it necessary to assert themselves.

Give an Englishman as good as he gives you, and you are certain to win his respect, and probably his regard.

In this connection see my anecdote about the Tommies and Yankees who physically fought it out, and compare it with the Salisbury, the van Squibber, and the opium trade anecdotes.

"Treat 'em rough," when they treat you rough: they like it.