Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c’eSt fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours et toujours leur donner des explications.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Little Prince

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Adults and children

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The Little Prince

Statement Type

Irony

Language

French

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

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Writer

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Citation

De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Le Petit Prince [The Little Prince]. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943, ch. 1.

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Alfred North Whitehead
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1943 1940s 20th century
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Hector Berlioz
Source
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Language
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Time
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Citation

Berlioz, Hector. Personal letter. Nov. 1856.