If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

我若自夸过于得体，我的借口是，我自夸是为人性，不是为自己。

-- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗