THE NOBLEST SELF-DEFENCE

 THE NOBLEST SELF-DEFENCE. 

DO you think it would be wrong for me to learn the noble art of self-defence: a young man inquired of an old clergyman.
 'Certainly not,'- was the answer: 'I learned it in youth myself, and I have found it of great value during my life.' 

'Indeed sir, Did you learn the old English system

or Sullivan's system?' 

'Neither, I learned Solomon's system.'

'Solomon's system ?'

'Yes: you will find it laid down in the first verse of the fifteenth chapter of Proverbs: 'A soft turneth away wrath.' It is the best system of self-defence of which I have ever heard.   

References:

1. Chatterbox No 15 New Series 1903 Weekly One Halfpenny