There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Miguel de CervantesBe not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.
Miguel de CervantesYou are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
Miguel de Cervantes