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The Walking Drum

by Louis L'Amour

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Dec 04, 2025 12:43PM

“It's funny, I wonder why we like being praised. There's no money in it. Fame? How famous could we get? . . . Aren't humans absurd? I suppose we like praise for its own sake. The way children like ice cream. It's an inferiority complex, that's what it is. Praise assuages our insecurities. And ridiculously so.”
― Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

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