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恭维话的代价 　　Despite the current strident culture of positive reinforcement―compliment often！―people can have a natural skepticism towards those who offer praise too freely.1 They might be searching for some linguistic way to oil the wheels of social interaction， but remain wary of those who overdo it. 　　It’s easy to see why. Streams of compliments can betray either insincerity or ulterior motives.2 Reactions to praise can be telling， too. Mark Twain， in a chapter epigraph from Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar （1894） observes that “a dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganat