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"You must be very patient," replied the fox.
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"What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. They buy things all ready made at the shops. "Men have no more time to understand anything. "One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand." "I want to, very much," the little prince replied. The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat. 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. But you have hair that is the color of gold. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And then look: you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. "My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "Ah, that is interesting! Are there chickens?" The fox seemed perplexed, and very curious. "Oh, but this is not on the Earth!" said the little prince. "On the Earth one sees all sorts of things." "I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. To you, I shall be unique in all the world. To me, you will be unique in all the world. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. And you, on your part, have no need of me. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "I am looking for men," said the little prince. "Ah! Please excuse me," said the little prince. "Come and play with me," proposed the little prince. "Who are you?" asked the little prince, and added, "You are very pretty to look at." "I am right here," the voice said, "under the apple tree." "Good morning," the little prince responded politely, although when he turned around he saw nothing.