DO give them compliments on non-physical attributes. I.e., "You have an amazing vocabulary"; "Your ability to make electricity out of a potato is really impressive"; "Your taste in movies is weird but I really like it." It's one thing to say someone looks nice, a whole other ballgame to say they are nice.
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