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abloom afraid answered the echo asked the little Asteroid B-612 baobabs beautiful boa constrictor brilliantly lighted express businessman caterpillars common rose conceited concerned with matters constrictor demanded the little desert Drawing Number drink Earth eat little bushes ermine essential is invisible everything explorer eyes five hundred million Five-hundred-and-one million four thorns fresh water funny animal geographer glass globe Goodbye grown-ups are certainly happy heart inhabited lamplighter laughed little bells little prince added little prince asked little prince coming live look magnificent matters of consequence morning morning Good morning mountain muzzle never knows night once planet prince asked prince's pulley question replied rose sand seeds sheep silence sky at night sleep snake spring of fresh sunset switchman tamed thing thirst thousand miles three volcanoes thunderstruck tippler took understand walk yawn 小王子
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Page 94 - It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." 'To establish ties' ? " "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world.
Page 97 - I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me ! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat- --" The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time.
Page 124 - All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealdi. But all these stars are silent. You — you alone — will have the stars as no one else has them—
Page 128 - And he sat down, because he was afraid. Then he said, again: "You know — my flower---! am responsible for her. And she is so weak! She is so naive! She has four thorns, of no use at all, to protect herself against all the world I too sat down, because I was not able to stand up any longer. "There now — that is all---" He still hesitated a little; then he got up.
Page 18 - If you were to say to the grown-ups: "I saw a beautiful house made of rosy" brick, with geraniums'" in the windows and doves on the roof," they would not be able to get any idea of that house at all. You would have to say to them '. "I saw a house that cost $20,000." Then they would exclaim: "Oh, what a pretty house that is!
Page 24 - If it is only a sprout of radish or the sprig of a rose-bush, one would let it grow wherever it might wish. But when it is a bad plant, one must destroy it as soon as possible, the very first instant that one recognizes it. Now there were some terrible seeds on the planet that was the home of the little prince; and these were the seeds of the baobab. The soil of that planet was infested with them.
Page 50 - If 1 ordered a general to fly from one flower to another like a butterfly, or to write a tragic drama, or to change himself into a sea bird, and if the general did not carry out the order that he had received, which one of us would be in the wrong?" the king demanded. "The general, or myself?
Page 31 - Oh!" There was a moment of complete silence. Then the little prince flashed back at me, with a kind of resentfulness''": "I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive'''. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons I did not answer. At this instant I was saying to myself: "If this bolt still won't turn, I am going to knock it out with the hammer.
Page 96 - And then look: you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you.
Page 71 - Then you're unlucky," said the little prince. "I am unlucky," said the lamplighter. "Good morning." And he put out his lamp. "That man," said the little prince to himself, as he continued farther on his journey, "that man would be scorned by all the others: by the king, by the conceited man, by the tippler, by the businessman. Nevertheless he is the only one of them all who does not seem to me ridiculous. Perhaps that is because he is thinking of something else besides himself.