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Though compliments should arise naturally out of the occasion, they should not appear
to be prompted by the spur of it; for then they seem hardly spontaneous. Applaud a man’s
speech at the moment when he sits down, and he will take your compliment as exacted by
the demands of common civility; but let some space intervene, and then show him
that the merits of his speech have dwelt with you when you might have been expected to
have forgotten them, and he will remember your compliment for a much longer time than
you have remembered his speech.