His flower had told him that she was the only one of her kind in all the universe.
And here were five thousand of them, all alike, in one single garden!
"The one thing I love in life is to sleep."
"Then you're unlucky."
"And what good does it do you to own the stars?"
"It does me the good of making me rich."
"And what good does it do you to be rich?"
"It makes it possible for me to buy more stars, if any are discovered."
"This man," the little prince said to himself, "reasons a little like my poor tippler...".
And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me.
You will always be my friend.
You will want to laugh with me.
And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure...
And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky!
Then you will say to them,
'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!'
And they will think you are crazy.
It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you...
On matters of consequence, the little prince had ideas which were very different from those of the grown-ups.
The grown-ups are very strange.
Sometimes there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
But when it is a matter of baobabs, that always means a catastrophe.
You must see to it that you pull up regularly all the baobabs, at the very first moment when they can be distinguished from the rosebushes which they resemble so closely in their earliest youth. It is very tedious work, but very easy.
So the little prince, in spite of all the good will that was inseparable from his love, had soon come to doubt her.
He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
"You are a funny animal," he said at last. "You are no thicker than a finger..."
"But I am more powerful than the finger of a king."
"If I owned a silk scarf," he said, "I could put it around my neck and take it away with me. If I owned a flower, I could pluck that flower and take it away with me. But you cannot pluck the stars from heaven..."
I own the stars, because nobody else before me ever thought of owning them.
"To admire means that you regard me as the handsomest, the best-dressed, the richest, and the most intelligent man on this planet."
"But you are the only man on your planet!"
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