The Adventures of Vladimir Smirnoff—The Little Bear Prince
“C’est une question de discipline, me disait plus tard le petit prince. Quand on a terminé sa toilette du matin, il faut faire soigneusement la toilette de la planète. Il faut s’astreindre régulièrement à arracher les baobabs dès qu’on les distingue d’avec les rosiers auxquels ils se rassemblent beaucoup quand ils sont très jeunes. C’est un travail très ennuyeux, mais très facile.”
—Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Le Petit Prince
“It is a question of discipline,” the little prince said to me later on. “When you’ve finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care. 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,” the little prince added, “but very easy.”
—Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince
Sketch the Nineteenth: In which our hero attends to the toilet of his planet after returning from his travels with a sheep and a new hat.
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