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Take me or leave me. One may respect a person of this sort, but it is difficult either to know or to like him. I am told that an American officer said recently to a British staff officer in a friendly voice:
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So we're going to clean up Brother Boche together! and the British staff officer replied
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Really! No wonder Americans sometimes say:
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I've got no use for those fellows.
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Really!
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D----n your souls, grow tobacco! The English manner of to-day could not even have come into its own when that epitaph of a lady, quoted somewhere by Gilbert Murray, was written:
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Bland, passionate, and deeply religious, she was second cousin to the Earl of Leitrim; of such are the Kingdom of Heaven.
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Kultur. Behind every manifestation of thought or emotion the Briton retains control of self, and is thinking:
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That's all I'll let them see ; even:
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That's all I'll let myself feel. This stoicism is good in its refusal to be foundered; bad in that it fosters a narrow outlook; starves emotion, spontaneity, and frank sympathy; destroys grace and what one may describe roughly as the lovable side of personality. The English hardly ever say just what comes into their heads. What we call
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the unwritten law which governs certain classes of the Briton, savours of the dull and glacial; but there lurks within it a core of virtue. It has grown up like callous shell round two fine ideals--suppression of the ego lest it trample on the corns of other people, and exaltation of the maxim:
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Deeds before words.