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I will say this for Jones, though he is weak on Emily Post, he is frank and honest." After a seemingly casual, disinterested relay of incidental compliments, it did not take these two long to become good friends. The human heart is so constructed that it is practically helpless against an honest compliment brought to it by a friend. Such a compliment acts doubly. First of all, it is agreeable in itself. Secondly, being carried by a friend it has already had the audience that everyone yearns for who has a good thing to boast of. As we said before, the besetting temptation is to glorify oneself, but the relayed compliment is already shared with a friend to whom we most would like to tell such a thing. It makes the fearful temptation to self-praise superfluous — and so earns eternal gratitude. |
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