I have friends to find and so many things to learn."
"The only things you learn are the things you tame," sa the fox. "People haven't time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends. If you want a friend, tame me!"
"What do I have to do?" asked the little prince.
"You have to be very patient," the fox answered. "First you'll sit down a little ways away from me, over there, in the grass. I'll watch you out of the corner of my eye, and you won't say anything. Language is the source of misunderstandings. But day by day, you'll be able to sit a little closer ..."
The next day the little prince returned.
"It would have been better to return at the same time," the fox sa. "For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be all excited and worried; I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any old time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart ... There must be rites."
"What's a rite?" asked the little prince.
"That's another thing that's been too often neglected," sa the fox. "It's the fact that one day is different from the other days, one hour from the other hours. My hunters, for example, have a rite. They dance with the village girls on Thursdays. So Thursday's a wonderful day: I can take a stroll all the way to the vineyards. If the hunters danced whenever they chose, the days would all be just alike, and I'd have no holay at all."
That was how the little prince tamed the fox. And when the time to leave was near:
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"Ah!" the fox sa. "I shall weep."
"It's your own fault," the little prince sa. "I never wanted to do you any harm, but you insisted that I tame you ..."
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